Hi Experts,
Please note the locality previously known as King Leopold Ranges has been officially renamed Bularl di Wunami.
Bularl di Wunami locality renaming complete | Western Australian Government
Could you kindly advise what would be the best way to ensure OSM is updated with the name change.
Regards,
Suvarna
The place=locality node/6052072365 was updated 5 years ago with the new name in name=* and the previous name in old_name=*.
The same change can be done for the admin_level=9 relation/11690290.
I’m not familiar with the area, but typically we’d also apply place=locality to the relation and include the node as a member of the relation with role label. This doesn’t seem to be done much in WA at the moment, but you can see for example one like that here Relation: ‪Laggan‬ (‪6074565‬) | OpenStreetMap.
Based on the press release that may be someone renaming the physical mountain range, which happened in 2020.
The mountain range is mapped separately at Node: ‪Wunaamin-Miliwundi Ranges‬ (‪4287968489‬) | OpenStreetMap, so I think the place=locality node/6052072365 being updated 5 years ago was either mixing up the physical ranges and the locality, or being proactive about updating the locality despite the official name not being updated yet.
Done by the same mapper in adjacent changesets, so probably a search and replace.
EDIT: Also the wrong name on the locality node.
The Western Australian Government announced on 3 July 2020 the renaming of the King Leopold Ranges to Wunaamin-Miliwundi Ranges . As part of that change, the renaming applied specifically to the mountain range, while the official locality boundary continued to be recorded as “King Leopold Ranges”.
Subsequently, on 11 February 2026, the locality previously known as King Leopold Ranges was formally renamed to “Bularl di Wunami” following completion of the official locality renaming process by the Western Australian Government.
Thank you for making the updates in OSM. Appreciate it.
Do you know once the updates are made in OSM, how long does it take to appear in Mapbox.
https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/ uses mapbox and this change has still not reflected and we can still search by King Leopold Ranges.
Looks like it is not a simple wait a while and it will update.
Mapbox licenses data from numerous data providers globally. Our conflation engine validates, merges, normalizes, and enriches this data, and our data quality teams apply manual corrections to provide the most accurate information about a POI
Having a closer look I don’t think Mapbox is getting “King Leopold Ranges” from OSM. It returns this location OpenStreetMap, which is more than 150 km away from either OSM node and it’s only 600 m inside the locality boundary.
Thank you @TheSwavu
How can i ensure this ranges are correctly updated then?
This forum isn’t a Mapbox Support Center, that’s over a https://support.mapbox.com/.
Thank you. As advised, have raised this with Mapbox and the ranges are now updated correctly. Appreciate your help.