[Tile-serving] [osm2pgsql-dev/osm2pgsql] Updates to flex-config README and CONTRIBUTING (PR #2236)

[Sarah Hoffmann]

@lonvia commented on this pull request.



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 ## History
 
-To understand the osm2pgsql code, it helps to know some history on it. Osm2pgsql
-was written in C in 2007 as a port of an older Python utility. In 2014 it was
-ported to C++ by MapQuest and the last C version was released as 0.86.0. In it's
-time, it has had varying contribution activity, including times with no
-maintainer or active developers.
+To understand the osm2pgsql code, it helps to know some history on it.
+Osm2pgsql was written in C in 2007 as a port of an older Python utility. In
+2014 it was ported to C++ by MapQuest and the last C version was released as
+0.86.0. In it's time, it has had varying contribution activity, including times

it's -> its

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-Parts of the codebase still clearly show their C origin and could use rewriting
-in modern C++, making use of data structures in the standard library.
+There are still a few parts that show their C origin, but most of the code is
+now modern C++. We are currently targeting C++17.

Far too modest. "Very few parts of the code now show their C origin, most has been transformed to modern C++."

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