[OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

[John Smith]

On 20 May 2010 08:02, Rob Warren <warren at muninn-project.org> wrote:
> Historical mapping has some problems that are a bit different from
> conventional mapping in that 1) everything is a timestamp and 2) research
> people care very much about the data being 'wrong'.

While it would be nice for the OSM APIs to natively support
downloading data based on time frames, you could do something similar
with JOSM by slightly extending it's current filtering options to
include the ability to filter based on a time frame, in the mean time
the tags you are looking for is:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:end_date