[OSM-talk] Old versions of OSM?

Martijn van Exel m at rtijn.org
Thu May 31 14:01:43 BST 2012


You  may be able to benefit from Peter Körner's osm-history-renderer,
which generates mapnik images for a given point in time with a full
history planet or extract as input:

https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer

Best
Martijn

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Floris Looijesteijn <osm at floris.nu> wrote:
> 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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