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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/5/30 Philip Barnes <[email protected]>: >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
