[OSM-talk] extracts for historical views at a specific point in time

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Thu Aug 14 21:52:28 UTC 2014


On 14/08/14 14:59, Richard Welty wrote:
> i have a need to be able to generate mapnik tiles for
> part of NY State to show what the OSM view of it
> looked like maybe 2 years ago. is there a documented
> process for pulling an extract like that?

The quick 'fix' would be to grab a 2 year old copy of the planet file,
but the last one in the archive is 14-Sep-2012 and then they are weekly
from then. Extracting your arget area and then rendering a map from it
just follows the same process as working with the current data.

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