OSM History

Displaying Historic OpenStreetMap Coverage

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.

Fill out this form to request an animated GIF image to be rendered:
 
Identification  
Your Name: 
Image Name: 
This is just so that you (and others) can recognize the image later. You can put any user name, it is not checked against a list.
Bounding Box  
min. lat  min. lon  
max. lat  max. lon  
Projection  
(using Mercator for large areas doesn't work well with background images)
Background  
GIF size   width: OR height:
(other dimension results from bounding box and projection data)
OSM Nodes  
Date Range   from to
(actual resolution depends on available historic data)
Frame Rate   displayed at
     

Request Queue and log

Duitama
requested by: Leonardo gutierrez, id: 4377
Image size: 39 kB (640 by 618 pixels, 55 animation frames)
requested 2010-09-02 18:53, processed 2010-09-02 18:53 (took 10 seconds)
bbox: 5.7716,-73.0746,5.8560,-72.9820, date range: earliest to latest
new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)Fips
requested by: , id: 4376
Status: failed
invalid 'projection' parameter:
requested 2010-09-02 18:52
bbox: 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000, date range: earliest to 2000-00-00
new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
Kastellaun
requested by: TableDevil, id: 4375
Image size: 75 kB (640 by 492 pixels, 200 animation frames)
requested 2010-09-02 17:46, processed 2010-09-02 17:47 (took 92 seconds)
bbox: 50.0331,7.3960,50.0859,7.4700, date range: 2006-07-01 to latest
new request based on these parameters
Kastellaun
requested by: TableDevil, id: 4374
Image size: 229 kB (640 by 492 pixels, 38 animation frames)
requested 2010-09-02 17:32, processed 2010-09-02 17:37 (took 264 seconds)
bbox: 50.0331,7.3960,50.0859,7.4700, date range: 2006-07-01 to 2009-06-30
new request based on these parameters
Gera
requested by: Mario, id: 4373
Image size: 407 kB (640 by 697 pixels, 53 animation frames)
requested 2010-09-01 11:53, processed 2010-09-01 11:58 (took 243 seconds)
bbox: 50.7990,11.9975,50.9766,12.1692, date range: 2006-07-01 to latest
new request based on these parameters
Isle of Wight workshop
requested by: David Groom, id: 4372
Image size: 3 kB (400 by 268 pixels, 3 animation frames)
requested 2010-09-01 11:40, processed 2010-09-01 11:43 (took 189 seconds)
bbox: 50.5700,-1.6000,50.7700,-1.0600, date range: earliest to 2006-06-30
new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)
requested by: exilschorsch, id: 4371
Status: failed
width is 0
requested 2010-09-01 00:12
bbox: 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000, date range: earliest to latest
new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
carvell
requested by: carvell, id: 4370
Image size: 115 kB (640 by 296 pixels, 55 animation frames)
requested 2010-08-31 13:41, processed 2010-08-31 13:44 (took 155 seconds)
bbox: 52.0037,-2.1242,52.0098,-2.1092, date range: earliest to latest
new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)carvell
requested by: carvell, id: 4369
Status: failed
computed height too large (max 1600)
requested 2010-08-31 13:39
bbox: -2.1242,52.0037,-2.1092,52.0098, date range: earliest to latest
new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
MV-History
requested by: MM, id: 4368
Image size: 382 kB (960 by 370 pixels, 175 animation frames)
requested 2010-08-29 19:57, processed 2010-08-29 20:12 (took 893 seconds)
bbox: 53.3570,10.6864,54.7000,14.5333, date range: earliest to latest
new request based on these parameters

next page (older requests)


Scripts written in Perl by Frederik Ramm <ramm@geofabrik.de>, Public Domain, source available in OSM SVN (applications/rendering/history).
All images use OpenStreetMap data which is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0.