Why not just pass the Google info if equivalent OSM data isn't available?

Traffic info and labels on the satellite layer don't appear to appear.

Note that in many parts of the world, far better aerial data is publicly available. Check with your various local, regional and national authorities to see if this data is available.

If you're lucky enough to live in Oregon, most cities, and almost all counties, the state itself and the US government are all subject to various "Sunshine" and "Freedom of Information" laws (depending on the era in which they were passed), which means that you already paid for the data to be collected and thus get free access to the same.

...but what if I want the functionality, just with a OSM map instead of a google one?

They put the Portland IKEA store conveniently next to the Airport. Problem: It's on the ONLY road the public is allowed to use to access the airport. Another problem: It sits immediately adjacent to one of just two Columbia River crossings for a good 50+ miles either direction (and the other local crossing is a drawbridge freeway).

I used to be a truck driver with frequent runs in and out of the airport. I really, really hated hearing my dispatcher spot my GPS dot on his map at the airport because it gave me a 50/50 on getting a call to pick something up at the IKEA dock.

Which brings me to the IKEA docks. IKEA supplies family parking for a reason, right next to the door so families with kids do not have to use the dock, potentially putting them in harm's way by letting them play where trucks are backing up all day long.

So I looked up a backup buzzer to my truck (it was just slightly too small for it to be required). And I hooked the backup buzzer to a rear-facing railway horn. Yes: You could hear me back up from (quite literally) two miles away. It would make everyone run holding their ears and children to run away crying. It was the perfect backup beeper for my purpose: It kept people from walking behind me.

Not at all! Government data sources are but one possible source for geodata, among other contributions. It often requires a great deal of cleanup, though any good import won't overwrite or munge existing ways and landmarks.

Another possibility is to use the make-jpkg command to build a sun java package for your system, assuming you are not averse to the license. http://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackage

I wouldn't say completely useless unless nobody's worked the TIGER tracks over yet (ie, tracks are listed as residential roads lacking reference with the reference in the name instead, rather than as a possibly unnamed track with a ref=NFDXXXX). Your giveaway is the change in these tracks from ref=NFDXXXX to ref=BIAXXXX).

Start looking for unclosed ways tagged area=yes.

I like AndNav2 in principal, but the ad banner takes up too much screen real estate and bandwidth. It would be nice if there was more offline, garmin-like functionality to it, as well (precache the data along a route so it's not trying to fetch map in places where data service is not available or expensive thanks to roaming).

My experience with this sort of thing is that you really don't want to do this from your phone. Bluetooth as implemented by phones seems to be a lot less cooporative than with computers. You might even consider a dedicated GPS unit.

That being said, if you want good phone with the GPS already in it, take a look at Google's offering.

"Don't tag for the renderer."

If it's a county road, it's at minimum tertiary by default (third order of highways after national (primary) and state (secondary), with a little variance depending on design and traffic flow). Easy way to tell who owns a route is to check bridge tags, though some counties make it more obvious than others (such as when you leave city roads and state highways in Salem, you see "Welcome to the Marion County Highway System" signs with no route numbers, and in Lane County they have the generic US-MUTCD county highway indicators with route numbers).

I'm really dissatisfied with the way the TIGER import handled road orders; in my opinion, ideally, the TIGER import should have used highway=road instead of residential, since it's pretty apparent that TIGER didn't know what kind of road...

Find a path through the park, map that instead. Put the park boundaries at their actual locations, not the road centerline. Example: osm.org/?lat=45.52229&lon=-122.83711&zoom=17&layers=0B00FTF

It is important to note that GPSBabel is NOT shareware. Shareware, like all forms of proprietary software, are worth less than the sum of their parts thanks to restrictive licensing and a lack of access to the source code.

Free software, which GPSBabel is, puts your freedom as a software developer and software user first and foremost by allowing free redistribution, modification and access to the source code itself.

Shareware/freeware and free software are 100% mutually exclusive terms with zero overlap in terms of your rights as a developer or user.

I guess I missed how it's understandable when Ogg Theora exists.

It's in live use. Go for it. Lemme know if you have some local mappers, I might consider pulling some slides together.

What is a POC?

I noticed you're working on the Galloping Goose there, yaaay! I haven't inspected the cyclemap, but you might also want to catch the cycle connection where westbound (inbound to Victoria) cyclists on the Transcanada Freeway are detoured to the Galloping Goose right near that point, as the freeway is closed to bicycles from roughly there to Victoria.

If you are using Potlatch on the website's edit tab, it's very easy to accidentally connect nodes. If you use JOSM (http://josm.openstreetmap.de/) as your editor, then hitting escape a couple times when it starts drawing a line when all you want is a node, should do it.

Could you set this to your local language rather than English, please? Thank you!