In the EU and UK, public bodies contribute to mapping data by publishing large amounts of geospatial data using interoperable standards that can be commercially exploited.
This is set in the EU through the INSPIRE Directive, and while the UK is now off doing their own thing, they still use the same standards.
https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-directive/2
https://guidance.data.gov.uk/publish_and_manage_data/harvest_or_add_data/inspire/
It just blows my mind to see all the different ways people will bend over backwards and then contort into a pretzel to try and blame the US for causing and perpetuating a war that Russia is exclusively culpable for…