Very useful, thanks for posting this. I filled out the form the best I could, re-iterating my views that public data should be completely open and free for everyone. Information wants to be free :-)

Welcome to OSM! I enjoyed reading your blog post, and I hope you will be able to blog much more about this fabulous project! A very interesting aspect of OSM is its use in disaster areas (Haiti, Pakistan) and its use for creation of maps in places where maps are otherwise not available (Gaza). I mention this, because it is a great subject for a blog-post (nudge-nudge :-)) Thanks for pointing us to the Apture plug-in!

I agree with chriscf, tag for correctness, not for the renderer.

I have a Garmin Legend Cx, it creates the GPX files, you just have to transfer them to the computer.