Consider making your changes in OpenStreetmaps. It's super easy to do in a mobile app, and the maps are great.
A few years back we build an open source app to handle employee tax deductions and pay for work related driving together with a few other municipalities. Part of how it works relies on a local company to download data from OSM and feed it to us in an address to address routing api, but at one point we changed the driving direction on a rather important (very busy might be the right English?) street to become one-way. OSM got the direction wrong, so that it was suddenly impossible to reach the municipality of our second largest city.
This was “fun” with tens of thousand of employees sending in issues, and I set out to fix it. So with our official municipality account (and not bothering to read the rules) I used Google maps as part of the evidence. I also included a photo I had taken from the street myself. Anyway, because you’re not allowed to reference Google maps I got our account banned and the change reversed so that OSM was wrong again, and it took me 3 days of arguing with the “amateur” contributors to get them to realise that I worked in the organisation who decided which way the direction of the street goes.
This was the cause. OpenStreetMap has a very strict zero-tolerance policy of anything that might be sourced from a copywritten source. Maps were traditionally "big business" before OpenStreetMap, and map data was closely guarded (and the guards had no worries about attacking what they believed to be even the slightest infringements of their copyrights).
> I also included a photo I had taken from the street myself.
If you had used just the photo you took yourself, and not referenced Google at all, you'd have had no issue getting the fix made and having it stick.
Looking back on it now it’s sort of hilarious though.
https://gizmodo.com/the-fake-places-that-only-exist-to-catch...
I hope I speak for everyone involved, but this seems to be the problem of one person. We at OSM aim to be a friendly bunch and hope you come back to edit.
Very easy to use app for adding info to OpenStreetMap from a mobile device: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...
Full editor of everything OpenStreetMap on a mobile device (but does have a steeper learning curve than StreetComplete above) https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/
Within an hour an experienced OpenStreepmap volunteer had handled the note and added the right map feature.
That is never going to happen with Google Maps.
OSM is an incredibly cool project with great maintainers.
I found an example of a local feed here: https://help.openstreetmap.org/answer_link/25796/