title: How can I create a map-based app for my town?
body: <p>I want to create a map-based web app for my town. It's small, like only 5 x 5 miles, so I'd like to download a map image or tiled image set to use for the site.</p>
  
  <p>For such a small area I think I could just cache the map image or images. Then I wouldn't need to depend on Google or another map service, which seems like overkill for my tiny area. I want to map events by street address, so I would need to plot addresses on the map images.</p>
  
  <p>Can I download a local map like this somewhere? How can I build this app? I spent about a day reading about map stuff, like what Everyblock did and OpenStreetMap, but am completely lost because the sites don't really talk about how the tools are used. There has to be a known set of tools I can use to build this! If somebody could tell me what map tools I should be looking at that would help a lot. Thx!</p>