[OSM-newbies] "Fresh" map

[Serge Wroclawski]

I mean that the OSM stack is quite a complex set of software. You have
the API, the editors, the renderer, etc.

You'd have to replicate all of that. As a professional sys-admin with
over a decade of experience, I could do that, but even for me, it'd be
significant work. If I wasn't a professional, I wouldn't undertake it.

What I'd do instead is start more simply, do some simple collection
with software that marks things as GPX points and then use something
like, say Leaflet, to turn that vector data into a map. The nice thing
is if you do this, you can use OSM as an underlay (display your data
on top of it).

Or if you wanted to get really fancy, than that vector data into
shapefile, and feed it into Tilemill, but I suspect that'd be
unnecessarily complex for a school class- unless it's a high school or
college level course.

- Serge