I live in Pennsylvania. I audit your edits at east coast of the USA. I help OSM Data working group to hunt troublemakers. Find me on Slack at https://osmus.slack.com/.
Stop using mailing list and IRC, they sound awful and so do you.
Do not add features from 100 years ago as abandoned unless you live in a graveyard.
HDYC
Regarding my Cosmetic changes:
You may have seen that many of my changes do look like that. Yes, they are really cosmetic by:
Sometimes even 1 changeset can contain 300-500 changes, but none of them are really of importance. All these cosmetic changes are the prerequisite of future Major changes that:
Do not ask me again “can you have better comments” because I do leave non-generic comments when something is not cosmetic but requiring attention, like rework an overpass, repair a ramp of an interstate or when I’m on phone using Go Map! while driving.
Writing software/algorithm/UI won’t improve the map, only data is the king. OSM is a database. Don’t try to get me impressed by those craps, IDGAF.