OWL

For other uses of OWL see OWL (disambiguation)

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OpenStreetMap Watch List
Authors:	Matt Amos, Paweł Paprota
License:	New BSD License
Status:	Broken
Language:	English
Website:	https://owl.openstreetmap.org/
Source code:	https://github.com/ppawel/openstreetmap-watch-list
API for analyzing and visualizing changes in OSM data
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data ? Source ? Rotate map ? 3D view ? Shows website ? Shows phone number ? Shows operation hours ? Routing Routing no Create route manually ? Calculate route ? Create route via Waypoints ? Routing profiles ? Turn restrictions ? Calculate route without Internet (Offline routing) ? Routing providers ? Avoid traffic ? Traffic Provider ? Navigating Navigate no Find location ? Find nearby POIs ? Navigate to point ? Navigation with voice / Voice guidance ? Keep on road ? Lane guidance ? Works without GPS ? Navigate along predefined route ? Tracking Make track no Customizable log interval ? Track formats ? Geotagging ? Fast POI buttons ? Upload GPX to OSM ? Monitoring Monitoring no Show current track ? Open existing track ? Altitude diagram ? Show POD value ? Satellite view ? Show live NMEA data ? Show speed ? Send current position ? Editing ? Rendering ? Accessibility ?

OWL (OpenStreetMap Watch List) was a service that monitors, processes and stores changes in OSM data. A major feature is that rather than calculate the bounding box of all changes in a changeset, OWL attaches changes to small tiles, which are more useful for visualization - it is possible to show only relevant changes, not all changes with overlapping bounding box.

Current status

• Beta version of OWL/OSM.org website integration (new History tab powered by OWL) is running on zark (go to the location in question and click on "History (beta)").
• OWL API server currently runs at https://owl.openstreetmap.org/.

Documentation

• API documentation - for coders who want to integrate with OWL
• Installation instructions - only for brave people!
• Hacking - for coders, may also help understand installation/administration
• Benchmarks - loose collection of notes on performance, storage etc.

Code

• Github repository: ppawel/openstreetmap-watch-list ^GitHub
• If you're interested in contributing, follow the usual GitHub workflow (fork, change, pull request).

Issue tracking

• Bugs, ideas, questions, feature requests and other issues are all tracked using Github issues.
• List of osm.org website issues that can possibly be affected by OWL

History

The project was started by Matt Amos. Development instance was running on errol. OWL was expected to return shortly after the ODBL License change is completed (Summer 2012).

See also

• List of OSM-based services