[OSM-talk] OSM then and now revived

[Martijn van Exel]

My poor little tile server machine doesn’t have the storage for that, but it would sure be cool to set this up for more points in time. The server itself is not hard to get up and running, although I did find the instructions on switch2osm to be out of date. I followed the instructions here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-server/openstreetmap-tile-server-ubuntu-16-04 <https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-server/openstreetmap-tile-server-ubuntu-16-04>. The only extra step was to download osmosis 0.35 and convert the 0.5 planet to 0.6. For older planets you’d need to come up with a way to convert 0.3 / 0.4 planets to 0.6. There is a script to convert from 0.4 to 0.5 but I don’t know of anything that can handle 0.3 planets.

Martijn van Exel

> On Jan 28, 2017, at 5:08 PM, joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Any chance we'll see some middle version there too in the future? (say, 2012. And than later, 1/1/20**)
> 
> You gave us a finger, let me grab your entire arm :)
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> 2017-01-26 23:17 GMT+01:00 Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org <mailto:m at rtijn.org>>:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I resuscitated the OSM then and now service, where you can compare OSM as it was in October 2007 with now.
> The service is a bit slow because 2007 tiles above z10 are not pre-rendered. This will improve as tiles get cached. 
> Here is the location of SOTM 2016 as an example: http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#15/50.8178/4.3971 <http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#15/50.8178/4.3971> 
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> Martijn van Exel
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