[OSM-talk] historic planet files

[Grant Slater]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>    does anyone have "historic" planet files available? I would like to 
> build something that creates an animated gif for a selectable area, 
> showing how data there progressed over time. For that I need all the old 
> planet dumps I can get.
>
>   
Is http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ not sufficient? It has historical 
planet files back to 18 Aug 2006.

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osm-extract/ has a 
selection of scripts to extract an area.

Grant