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What if the OpenStreetMap.org mapview had it's own feedback button?

I believe MapDust is what you're looking for.

Drowning in bugs

True, though I hope folks still look at the Other tickets and close them if they're not valid.

Ref label overkill

Be careful, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of turn restrictions in there.

National Broadband Map uses OSM

Yeah, it should be. We should get legal on that...

Drowning in bugs

I've noticed once you get done with the backlog (which is a lot of that), it's pretty easy to follow a whole state using the RSS feed.

Online Concierge Service

Not only that, but FAIL. Even in a city like Tulsa that didn't have much coverage on OSM before I landed...asking OSM didn't do too bad for me.

Open Mapquest and Places to Give

I was under the impression that they had their own database for that, but I could be wrong.

Signs, maximum speeds, village limits

I believe there should be a space before "mph" based on existing tags and the wiki.

Great Tool For Clean-up

I'm not terribly surprised the Census data is way out of whack, we are talking about the same data that was used to determine districts in Oklahoma, a predominantly left-voting, Indian-inhabited state that somehow manages to pull a white conservative vote out of it's ass invariably...

Never quit!

No kidding, I wish there was a way to flag spammers...

No Motor Vehicles Except For Access

access=yes is public access. access=destination means you can't go there by any mode unless it's the only way to your destination.

Trimet in Portland, Oregon, updating OSM

I wonder if we can convince TriMet to maintain route information as relations in the system. The MAX lines have some relations already started.

Vancouver WA

The City of Fort Vancouver has no urban growth boundary, so despite having a population roughly the size of Beaverton, it sprawls on and on like Tulsa. I just plain don't have anything nice to say about the abysmal quality of TIGER. For most of the country, it seems like we would have been better off NOT importing TIGER.

Will this be the mapping standard?

It's called gpx. Literally everyone but a few of El Cheapo GPS devices and the websites you mention get this.

Exit signs on I5

loc_name= would be a good choice if the name is what people in Portland know it as, regardless of what's on the sign.
old_name= would be what's still on the sign if the rename has occurred but they're replacing the signage as the old ones wear out.
name= should best reflect what should be on the sign if you can find it out from ODOT or what is actually on the sign if you can't.

Tulsa makes this brutal, since there was great renaming of the freeways somewhat recently and state roads seem to get renamed at a whim (about a mile of "State Highway 66" got renamed something incredibly long like "Officer and Mister Cantrell Memorial Highway") so it's dicey if you're navigating by name using OSM at the moment. I take street names on my OSM-loaded Garmin with a massive grain of salt on roads I haven't been on before.

Exit signs on I5

If they've been updated on the ground, it's definitely time to update it in the map. old_name might be a good key as well to hang on to the old exit name.

MAJOR screwup by Google Maps

Sounds like an example of a "trap street."

Garmin Nuvi 200

I like the NĂ¼vi, Colorado and Oregon series Garmins in part because of the rendering, though I prefer the Oregon series for it's ruggedness construction and inter-modal capabilities (the Oregon has available car mounts, bicycle mounts and comes with a belt clip and carabiner strap).

Six Sigma Training

DURP!

XKCD I don't want directions.

I just wish there was an easy way to get latitude and longitude from an address since it's exceptionally rare for people to know their missile address.