[OSM-dev] OSM History Retriever

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Martijn van Exel <mvexel at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Well we don't really want to be running that script lots of times for different extents either - the idea would be take the dump that produces and process it to produce subsets of the data as people do with the ordinary planet dumps.
>>
> Are there any existing tools that could do the processing though? Would osmosis for example be able to extract a bbox-defined subset of the history.osm file?

Not as far as I'm aware, unless osmosis happens to magically work!
It's the best tool for the job though, so I'd think some extra osmosis
tasks (--read-history, --write-history) would be the best approach.
I've no idea how much internal plumbing would be required though to
support this - anyone want to comment?

Cheers,
Andy