[OSM-talk-ie] Gnerating visualisations from a set of OSM XML files.

[Peter Mooney]

Thanks Rory,

We hadn't realised GeoFabrik had begun providing the history files. This is
really useful.

I've used Jochen Topf's https://github.com/joto/osm-history-splitter tool
to split these history file dumps before.

Peter

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

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> I've never done what you suggest
>
> But Geofabrik now provides full history dump files for Ireland (and
> all others). It might be helpful if you miss a day of a download. You
> probably need to use other tools to split that into different file formats
>
> http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/ireland-and-northern-ireland.html
>
> On 02/03/17 20:07, Peter Mooney wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > At the Dept of Computer Science here in Maynooth University I
> > currently have two undergraduate students working with me on an
> > internship project. One of the key tasks in this project is to
> > update existing data and contribute new data to OpenStreetMap in
> > the University. Our focus is mapping the changes around the two
> > campus from local knowledge and on-the-ground survey. So we are
> > mapping everything from our new buildings to litter bins, trees,
> > lampposts and sundials! In summary Barry [
> > http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?barry23] and Stephen [
> > http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Stephen_Fay] have really embraced the
> > challenge.
> >
> > On a daily basis we have a Python script which downloads the OSM
> > XML for Maynooth and stores this file.
> >
> > At the end of their project (late April) we'd like to create a
> > visualization of the changes in the University OpenStreetMap map -
> > maybe on a weekly basis (or even daily) - for the duration of the
> > internship.
> >
> > Has anyone on the IE list done this before? Can anyone give us
> > some pointers on what the best approach should be? We're
> > considering Mapnik and Maperative. Something we could script with
> > Python or similar would be great.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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