We live in a street named 'ms x of y' and someone renamed our street to y. As there was anither street called 'z x', deliveries were always going to the wrong street, or marked as invalid address.

Fixing it in OSM fixed it slowly in all drivers navigation systems and after a year no deliveries were lost anymore

Yeah I have it’s quite strange only Google maps seems to have it. It’s not on any official maps either. Think it’s happening due to it looking like a road and on the maps the name of the area being near the center at the end of the road. It ends a swamp too which is quite a shock for some people.

Google won't look in OSM... All kinds of legal hurdles there...

They can look in some government maps, depending on the licenses.

I wouldn't say so. According to [1] they're a big supporter of OSM.

[1]: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/615/can-google-maps...

> Google, and other companies are welcome to use OpenStreetMap Data as long as they meet their obligations in the OpenStreetMap License.

But they do not make wide use of OSM data, because one of the terms of the license is attribution, of which there is none on any Google product I have seen.

I would guess they are big supporters of OSM as a hiring thing - by supporting an opensource project, you will get young engineers interested in mapping, some of which will then go work on Google Maps.

It also helps any antitrust cases if Google isn't the only game in town, which was the case for many years.