Development activity (2004-2010)
This is a history of OpenStreetMap Development activity. We don't seem to be very good at keeping it up to date
For detail of recent development activity, see the source-control timeline. There's also some entertaining CodeSwarm animations which give a nice historical perspective.
2010
Early 2010. Lot's of Potlatch version 2 development.
Git repo set-up for The Rails Port.
2009
In August OAuth support was added.
We had London Hack Weekend May 2009
21st April. - API version 0.6 was finished and rolled out. This introduced changesets, and involved switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL
2008
Towards the end of 2008 we did most of the development for API version 0.6. This version introduces changesets. We had London developer meet-ups in February and two in November: APIzza 0.6 and 2nd International OSM Hack Weekend which were API focussed.
The live API was left stable on version 0.5 throughout 2008.
Lots of other development happened on peripheral apps.
2007
October 2007
- API 0.5 with segments removed
September 2007
- QuadTile indexing added to speed up geographic queries (September 21st)
May 2007
- The Rails Port - The website and API code ported from pure ruby into Ruby on Rails.
- Potlatch editor deployed on the 'edit' tab
- David Earl's name finder was deployed as the attempt at having a search box appearing on the OSM front page.
2006
December 2006
November 2006
- Script to filter OSM files by type
- Unicode issues on planet.osm resolved
- Mapnik renderer
- New slippy-map renderer (screenshot), based on pre-rendered tiles
- Historical maps in JOSM
- tiles@home
October 2006
- OSM@home distributed rendering and Places website
- Nestoria generates map tiles using osmarender
- First version of Merkaartor released
September 2006
- Mapyrus renderer
August 2006
- Use of areas
- AJAX freemap viewer
- planetosm-to-db.pl
- Coastline import started
July 2006
- Ruby on Rails port started
- Waypoint upload page
- Where Are They (search engine)
June 2006
- Ways on the slippy map
May 2006
April 2006
- planet.osm first published
- Freemap renderer using street types
- RoadNav displays OpenStreetMap data
March 2006
- Osmarender released
- Map upload to garmin devices
- OSM Foundation
January 2006
- JOSM released
2005
December 2005
November 2005
- OSM data in freemap
- Map features
October 2005
- roadmap
- Slippy map online renderer
September 2005
- OpenStreetMap data in Flightgear (flight simulator)
August 2005
- FreeThePostcode
- new editing applet
July 2005
April 2005
- MediaWiki installation
- Landsat in Osmeditor (QT)