OSM History

The history service creates animated GIF images that depict how OSM coverage of an area has changed over time. It does so by painting a dot on a map for each node, using old planet files for past data. (It doesn't draw lines for segments and ways, which means that zoomed-in inner city views look a bit thin sometimes.) You can control some aspects of image generation, like the background image to be used or what time range you want depicted.

Computation is too time-consuming to offer this as a live service, but you can request images to be created and then view or download them once they are ready (the list below should give an indication how many requests are waiting and also how long other requests took to complete).

You can browse past results below. If you request a new image, it will show up in the list after some time. This service is mainly intended for people to generate images, then download and use them e.g. in presentations. I will probably delete old images from this server from time to time.

Request Queue and log

(no thumbnail)	Tyne Tees, GB requested by: Jae, id: 3722 Status: failed height and width both 0 requested 2010-03-11 05:31 bbox: 54.4500,-1.7500,55.0500,-0.5500, date range: 2008-07-01 to 2008-12-31 new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
	Sterling requested by: mutantmonkey, id: 3721 Image size: 1001 kB (1280 by 1276 pixels, 49 animation frames) requested 2010-03-11 02:17, processed 2010-03-11 02:20 (took 154 seconds) bbox: 38.9880,-77.4442,39.0489,-77.3814, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)	Sterling requested by: mutantmonkey, id: 3720 Status: failed minlat > maxlat requested 2010-03-11 02:17 bbox: 39.0489,-77.4442,38.9880,-77.3814, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
(no thumbnail)	Tyne Tees, GB requested by: woxzpnybnnr, id: 3719 Status: failed width too large (max 1600) requested 2010-03-10 18:36 bbox: 54.4500,-1.7500,55.0500,-0.5500, date range: 2006-07-01 to 2006-12-31 new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
	la loma requested by: humano, id: 3718 Image size: 20 kB (640 by 816 pixels, 158 animation frames) requested 2010-03-09 23:45, processed 2010-03-09 23:46 (took 14 seconds) bbox: -75.6428,6.2620,-75.6188,6.2816, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
	la loma requested by: humano, id: 3717 Image size: 13 kB (640 by 816 pixels, 94 animation frames) requested 2010-03-09 23:44, processed 2010-03-09 23:45 (took 9 seconds) bbox: -75.6428,6.2620,-75.6188,6.2816, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
	la loma requested by: humano, id: 3716 Image size: 22 kB (640 by 816 pixels, 180 animation frames) requested 2010-03-09 23:43, processed 2010-03-09 23:43 (took 12 seconds) bbox: -75.6428,6.2620,-75.6188,6.2816, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)	la loma requested by: humano, id: 3715 Status: failed minlat > maxlat requested 2010-03-09 23:41 bbox: -75.6188,6.2620,-75.6428,6.2816, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
	Plaffeien requested by: efred, id: 3714 Image size: 248 kB (800 by 451 pixels, 53 animation frames) requested 2010-03-09 22:30, processed 2010-03-09 22:35 (took 236 seconds) bbox: 46.7235,7.2459,46.7526,7.3019, date range: 2009-01-01 to latest new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)	Tyne Tees, GB requested by: Jae, id: 3713 Status: failed height and width both 0 requested 2010-03-09 16:57 bbox: 54.4500,-1.7500,55.0500,-0.5500, date range: 2007-01-01 to 2007-12-31 new request based on these parameters / re-try this request

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