[OSM-newbies] "Fresh" map

[Peter O'Doherty]

Thanks Serge and Andy for your advice.

I don't have the technical skills or knowledge of OSM to undertake a 
project of the scope my original idea seems to entail. Therefore I think 
I need to go back to the drawing board and simplify.

My alternative idea was the software equivalent of "tracing" where one 
uses, say, tracing paper (or sheet of perspex) laid on top of a paper 
map - the new map is drawn on the paper using the map underneath as a 
guide and when finished, after removal of the original map, you're left 
with a simplified map.

Is this doable? Annotations, notes, locations of interest, paths, (sound 
files?), layered over an existing map and at the end of the process the 
original map is deleted leaving the annotations alone.

Many thanks,
Peter



On 01/14/2014 05:16 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> 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
>
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