[OSM-talk] Old versions of OSM?

[Floris Looijesteijn]

It would be cool to be able to watch the history in a map viewer.
Make it have a slider to take you back or forward in time.

It's probably not very hard to setup but will require a LOT of space.
Limiting this in zoomlevels is probably a bad idea since people will
want to see specific areas.
Probably limiting the resolution is the best approach: Start with
one render per year, move up to 6 months if possible, and so on...

Who wants to set this up? :)

Greets,
Floris Looijesteijn


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/5/30 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:
>> Is it possible to view an older rendering of OSM, such as how an area
>> was mapped earlier this year/last year.
>
>
> If you look at http://planet.osm.org/ there is history data back to
> 2006, the newer ones for every week. You can download one of these,
> cut the area of interest and render this (pretty easy to do). There is
> also the full planet file which can in theory be used to get back to
> every desired date, but AFAIK there is not yet an easy to use workflow
> available to deal with it (looks much more complicated to me). There
> is a history splitter tool available from Peter Körner with which you
> can cut out parts of the huge history file into more digestable
> pieces: https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-splitter
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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