In recent weeks, anti-government Syrian activists used Map Maker, a Google crowdsourcing program, to rename key streets, bridges and boulevards after revolutionary symbols and heroes.
Full report at Published by The Washington Post: February 14, 2012:
On Google, Syrians map defiance
Activists use crowdsourcing software to replace Assad regime’s street names with their own
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My opinion: they can rename what they want and where they want. As Bashar al-Asad will be where, nothing will change and particularly not on some street names. That they do is just child’s play.