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)	osm-history requested by: harry hirsch, id: 4407 Status: failed minlat > maxlat requested 2010-09-06 16:42 bbox: 49.0000,48.0000,8.0000,9.0000, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
	Kumpula-Kaepylae requested by: alv, id: 4406 Image size: 504 kB (800 by 630 pixels, 202 animation frames) requested 2010-09-05 14:57, processed 2010-09-05 15:00 (took 186 seconds) bbox: 60.1978,24.9296,60.2149,24.9758, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
	Mandalay2 requested by: amai, id: 4405 Image size: 237 kB (800 by 995 pixels, 59 animation frames) requested 2010-09-05 13:57, processed 2010-09-05 13:57 (took 6 seconds) bbox: 21.8000,95.9500,22.1000,96.2000, date range: 2009-07-01 to latest new request based on these parameters
	Mandalay requested by: amai, id: 4404 Image size: 583 kB (800 by 961 pixels, 59 animation frames) requested 2010-09-05 13:54, processed 2010-09-05 13:54 (took 15 seconds) bbox: 21.8000,95.9500,22.0200,96.1400, date range: 2009-07-01 to latest new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)	Mandalay requested by: amai, id: 4403 Status: failed minlat > maxlat requested 2010-09-05 13:53 bbox: 22.0100,95.9500,21.8000,96.1400, date range: 2009-07-01 to latest new request based on these parameters / re-try this request
	Osh requested by: arthur, id: 4402 Image size: 310 kB (800 by 456 pixels, 55 animation frames) requested 2010-09-05 04:44, processed 2010-09-05 04:45 (took 12 seconds) bbox: 40.4598,72.6883,40.6075,72.9692, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
	Bishkek requested by: arthur, id: 4401 Image size: 297 kB (800 by 441 pixels, 55 animation frames) requested 2010-09-05 04:33, processed 2010-09-05 04:33 (took 32 seconds) bbox: 42.7300,74.3090,43.0150,74.8710, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
	Lesum umzu requested by: , id: 4400 Image size: 260 kB (640 by 401 pixels, 55 animation frames) requested 2010-09-05 00:03, processed 2010-09-05 00:05 (took 136 seconds) bbox: 53.1347,8.6335,53.1985,8.7451, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
	München requested by: bilbo129, id: 4399 Image size: 301 kB (640 by 441 pixels, 55 animation frames) requested 2010-09-03 19:04, processed 2010-09-03 19:08 (took 229 seconds) bbox: 48.0312,11.6465,48.0857,11.7325, date range: earliest to latest new request based on these parameters
(no thumbnail)	Duitama requested by: , id: 4398 Status: failed invalid 'projection' parameter: requested 2010-09-03 18:07 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

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