I bought a Garmin Oregon the other week and this evening I finally got around to making a routable map of Syria using the CloudMade osm map of Syria (since I've had nothing but trouble trying to download the data myself). I'll have to try it out on the road, but a couple of quick simulated routes appear to work great!

This has definitely re-lit my fire to continue with mapping... just wish I'd got a Nuvi instead now since I didn't expect it to work so well... looks like the POI's and everything come across from the OSM map! However, I really got it to use for mountain biking, although I still need to figure out getting the cycle may renders onto the Garmin.

One thing that is missing is the traffic lights and the speed cameras?