[OSM-dev] Fixing the history tab

[Paweł Paprota]

Actually, my fork of the openstreetmap-website repository only contains
the UI part of the new history tab.

Heavy lifting (including creating and indexing geometry) is done by OWL
which is here:

https://github.com/ppawel/openstreetmap-watch-list

Paweł

On Fri, May 3, 2013, at 22:23, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:
> 
> > On May 3, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:
> > >> Would it be silly to suggest that changesets get their own geometries
> > in PostGIS and an associated spatial index, consisting of every way and
> > node deleted, moved, etc.?
> > >
> > > Isn't this similar to what Paweł's New History Tab is doing behind the
> > scenes?
> >
> > Maybe—where would I look to find out?
> >
> > https://github.com/ppawel/openstreetmap-website is obviously the starting
> > point, but where then?
> >
> 
> The source code is definitely the place where one should look. I think
> this
> is the more direct location:
> 
> https://github.com/ppawel/openstreetmap-website/tree/owl-history-tab
> 
> Anyway, basing on Paweł's numerous previous emails on the subject since
> January, I gather that his code processes each changeset and creates
> vector
> tiles which record the geometry changes. Vector tiles are obviously
> spatially indexable.
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