Adamant1
Freebeer, I am aware of Jon's working style also. As I have solved a few of his notes with this help survey the areas. Usually though in cases like this he/she is good about saying "hamlet" or something. Therefore giving the other mappers a clue as to what can be mapped if they feel like it. But the important context is not there in this case. I did spend some time researching it on the internet earlier to and came up with nothing and its been four months, while he/she has solved many other notes in the mean time. So I am of the mind its personal note or not doable, because like you say, he/she is usually good about that kind of thing. Plus, the note rules do explicitly say "Don't use notes for yourself in a way which is useless to others." without stating if this is a hamlet or not and then just leaving it here, that is essentially what jon is doing. I never said what kind of timeline for resolving I was giving either or that I wouldn't do due diligence before hand. But without a guiding hand to keep the people posting notes following the guidelines this system will never work. It is also not not to leave notes siting for to long without checking them again and a minor threat can bring the person back sometimes. I've been resolving a LOT of notes in recent days that were placed years ago and fixed just as far back but know one returned to resolve the note. Therefore, I think a sterner tone is needed for notes that go to long without action or any sign of the original person that put the note there in a while. 
I have actually been thinking about proposing a life cycle system to the notes where ones that are more than three years old will just resolve themselves. Because by then the problem is either already fixed or it doesn't matter. Especially if know one has come along since the original note was created. If the change is that low of a priority, maybe it shouldn't take up the space and time that can be spent on more important and recent notes. Not being able to resolve recently posted notes because we are spending our time sifting through the 5 year old ones just turns people off of using the note system. There should be a standard wait time and if its not met, the note should disappear. Its not like it couldn't be added back if its important. Or at least a color coding system based on the notes age. I don't think any of those things are unreasonable. Progress has to be made some how. If two or three notes get resolved that shouldn't be but it means 30 get resolved that should and brings more people in to leave notes, I call that a win. 
Anway, those are my thoughts. Just know its nothing personal with Jon per say and am not OCD to the point of expecting every note to become green, but there should be standards and notes should be phrased in a way that other mappers can resolve them if need be. 
Also, I have a pen and paper notebook, a bunch of text files on my computer with ordinates, and a ton of points in OSMAnd of things I want to add to the map eventually. There is single reason why Jon can't do that in instances like these or his/her whole "roads need directions added" thing. In general, I find notes asking for multiple things in large areas to be added pedantic. Plus, its something he /she can only find out by doing on the ground surveying. Since the Tiger2017 data doesn't match what he/she thinks the roads should be named and there is nothing else we can go off of. So there's no reasons those notes cant be put in a personal diary instead of here. I have no problem doing it myself so the system doesn't get littered up. If other people cared at all about the map and the systems they wouldn't mind either. 
