Hi, On 08/04/2014 06:27 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > I'm looking for some images of early OSM maps. Thanks to Martijn Exel, > we have http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#10/52.2644/5.2899, the Then > and Now from 2007 to current. But I'd really like some images of the > very earliest OSM maps.
Anyone who wants to really go down that road and has some time to spare would have to do roughly the following: * get very old planet file from http://planet.openstreetmap.org/cc-by-sa/ * potentially check out -r2744 of svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osm-extract/planetosm-excerpt-area.pl and the libraries it refers in order to be able to cut out a rectangular section from your planet file * if you want to go the Mapnik route, either get very old matching osm2pgsql or, potentially better, use svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/conv05/04to05.pl to convert old data to a format readable by current osm2pgsql * alternatively and for extra authenticity, grab osmarender from SVN and run it over your data. You might even want to grab an old coastline data set from somewhere, or run Jochen's osmcoastline across the old planet file but maybe that would be pushing it ;) I happen to have a number of really old PostgreSQL databases lying around and I tried to quickly expose them to anyone who would like to have a go at rendering old maps. Caveat: These *only* cover the "non US" part of the planet (the databases were created for animation purposes and at the time, US data was plentiful but relatively static and therefore useless for animations). So if you want to render a historic map of your (non-US) area, grab mapnik and a style file and connect to the following: host name: skye.geofabrik.de port: 5432 user: guest password: guest for database name, use one of these for the respective snapshot: h060814 h060903 h061023 h061105 h061205 h070103 h070207 h070307 h070404 h070502 h070613 h070704 h070801 h070905 h071003 h071107 h071205 h080102 h080206 h080305 h080402 h080507 h080604 The data in these tables is organised in a way that matches today's style sheets, i.e. you will find columns like "addr:housenumber" even though you're unlikely to find data there. I can also supply SQL dumps of any of the above if desired. Bye Frederik In case you are reading this in a mailing list later - the above is a temporary service and will only be available for a few months after this announcement. -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
