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Hey everyone, I applied to be part of the moderation team and this is my introduction :
I've been working as a system administrator for roughly a decade. I like to keep things tidy and well maintained, and I'm a big proponent of open source and open data. My current Lemmy account is fairly new, but that because I switched from a previous account that is 4 years old (see my Lemmy bio). I've also been a Reddit moderator on a sub of roughly 100k users before I mostly gave up on Reddit. Here's my OSM profile.
Contributing to OSM feels like to me as a great way to contribute to my local area by keeping things up to date, and by offering a good alternative to the commercial players like Google and Apple Maps.
If you need some help on how to update or publish some data on OSM feel free to ask, and we're always open to suggestion :)