I am new to OSM. I stand on the cliff wondering to take the dive into editing. I spend much of the last 2 years editing Google Maps for the county I live in northern Minnesota. I am a 9-1-1 dispatcher for my county sheriff’s office. At least once a month, we would get calls from concerned citizens wondering if we would be able to find them in an emergency. I assured them that yes, we would find them as we use a map maintained by our GIS office which has every address in the county. The biggest complaint was GPS devices were barely accurate in my county. We readdressed and renamed roads at the same time the first TIGER surveys came through in 2000. Needless to say ever since, our roads were a jumbled mess of names and roads that did not exist. Sending law enforcement out to find hapless motorists who were hopelessly lost and off the cellphone network was nearly a monthly exercise for us. It was then I discovered that online maps could be edited by people who know the area. 2 years later, Google Maps is done, the complains have vanished and suddenly many websites start changing to this “new” thing called Open Street Map. (Obviously not new but just to me) I started studying the map and saw many flaws but in this case not just limited to my county but also all of northern Minnesota. Many of the mainline highways are not even tagged to the specifications set in the help and wikis. I reached out to a few editors and appreciate the advise but wow, where to begin. I see evidence of editing in the history but not to the roads so much. So I need to make a choice, limit myself to my home county or start with the mainline roads over the entire region and work down. Either way a big project.