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 <[email protected]> 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 > <[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 -- martijn van exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
