[talk-ph] Historical OSM

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 2:05 PM Jim Morgan <jim at datalude.com> wrote:

> I was just curious to look at the OSM map for Manila from 2007 when I
> started mapping. Is there a way to display this? Some sort of OSM
> time-machine?
>
> I looked around but didn't find anything useful, except for someone
> suggesting to take a planet dump from that time, and render it in my own
> mapping server. Probably possible, but a little more effort than I was
> hoping for!
>

There used to be the website OSM Then and Now created by Martijn van Exel
that showed OSM data as of early 2008 compared to now, but it's now
offline: https://github.com/mvexel/thenandnow

There isn't a readily available solution now except to roll your own.

~Eugene
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