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Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the OpenHistoricalMap project.
Project timeline [edit]
- July 2, 2016
- The site is offline until further notice due to a hard drive failure.
- February 21, 2017
- The site is back up and running.
- February 24, 2017
- SomeoneElse has discovered that all data after May 2015 was lost in the hard drive failure.
- March 5, 2017
- mmd has recovered a backup of data from January 2016.
- May 23, 2018
- Topomancy is shutting down and transferring ownership of the OpenHistoricalMap domain to the Wikiwar Heritage Council.
- April 30, 2019
- The development team has released an experimental demonstration of a vector tileset, updated minutely, and an interactive time slider that filters the map on the fly.
- March 25, 2020
- The site is offline until further notice.
- May 14, 2020
- The site is back up and running with new functionality, including vector tiles and a time slider.
- July 14, 2020
- Wikidata has accepted a proposal to tag geographic items with a new OpenHistoricalMap relation ID (P8424) property.
- March 30, 2021
- The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors has approved an agreement allowing OpenHistoricalMap to coexist with the OpenStreetMap trademark.
- May 26, 2021
- OpenStreetMap U.S. has adopted OpenHistoricalMap as a charter project.
- October 8, 2021
- Wikipedia's GeoHack tool now links to OpenHistoricalMap. You can click the coordinates at the top of any geographical article on the English Wikipedia to visit the article's subject in OpenHistoricalMap.
- July 14, 2022
- The time slider on the main map has been revamped. The new time slider allows you to animate the map over any date range.
- August 3, 2022
- The default database license is now a CC0 public domain dedication. If necessary, use the license=* key to override this default on a feature-by-feature basis.
- August 16, 2022
- A new status page indicates whether various OpenHistoricalMap services are operational.
- September 29, 2022
- OpenHistoricalMap-specific interface messages throughout the website are now translated into a number of languages. Please help translate the website into your language on Translatewiki.net!
- October 10, 2022
- A chronology relation type has been proposed. Please leave feedback on the talk page.
- March 2, 2023
- A new Woodblock style is now available in the Layer sidebar.
- March 9, 2023
- A new Japanese Scroll style is now available in the Layer sidebar.
- March 21, 2023
- The Historical style now includes landcover and terrain hillshading.
- April 3, 2023
- Best practice guidelines for the project are being drafted. Please contribute to the draft or leave feedback on the talk page.
- April 27, 2023
- The OpenStreetMap France Forum has a new OpenHistoricalMap category in French.
- May 27, 2023
- start_date=*, start_date:edtf=*, end_date=*, end_date:edtf=*, and license=* now have dedicated, OpenHistoricalMap-specific documentation pages.
- May 29, 2023
- Should non–public domain data be tagged with license=* or licence=*? Participate in the poll.
- June 3, 2023
- Pages on this wiki can now embed OpenHistoricalMap using the {{Vector map}} template.
- June 7, 2023
- The project's main article has been redesigned as a portal that changes daily.
- June 11, 2023
- Presentation slides from State of the Map U.S. are now available in the project bibliography. Recorded videos will be available soon.
- July 17, 2023
- After two hours of unexpected downtime due to a failed upgrade, map tiles and Overpass API results have stopped updating. Some downtime is expected over the next several days as the backend infrastructure is repaired.
- July 21, 2023
- Web developers can now embed an interactive map powered by MapLibre inside an
<iframe>. The map is designed for calling attention to a location at a specific point in time, similar to the {{Vector map}} template on this wiki. - July 27, 2023
- Services are now updating normally following recent downtime.
- August 31, 2023
- Project-wide discussions can now take place on the new OpenHistoricalMap Forum. No extra setup required; just sign in with your OpenHistoricalMap account.
- September 1, 2023
- Recordings of State of the Map U.S. presentations are now available in the project bibliography and on the OpenStreetMap U.S. website.
- September 4, 2023
- The OpenHistoricalMap API now responds to requests much more quickly.
- October 26, 2023
- We briefly hit 1 million elements with a start_date=* or end_date=* tag for the first time. The millionth dated element is Hoctor Close in Melbourne.
- January 17, 2024
- The University of Freiburg has set up QLever for querying OpenHistoricalMap data in conjunction with other datasets using SPARQL.
- February 13, 2024
- An experimental new Railway style is now available in the Layer sidebar.
- April 10, 2024
- In iD, you can now switch the background layer to Esri World Imagery Wayback layers captured on a variety of dates within the last decade.
- April 13, 2024
- QLever now updates daily with the latest OpenHistoricalMap planet data.
- May 2, 2024
- The site will be in read-only mode for a few hours on Thursday to upgrade the database. You will not be able to edit the map during this time.
- June 4, 2024
- The Historic stylesheet has moved to a new location. If you have a website or application that embeds an OpenHistoricalMap-based style, please update to the new URL.
- June 11, 2024
- Presentation slides from State of the Map U.S. are now available in the project bibliography. Recorded videos will be available soon.
- June 12, 2024
- A version of Overpass Ultra has been preconfigured for OpenHistoricalMap at ohm.overpass-ultra.us.
- June 18, 2024
- The official stylesheets have moved to a new location once again. If you have a website or application that embeds an OpenHistoricalMap-based style, please update to the new URLs to avoid showing broken map tiles.
- June 24, 2024
- Recorded talks from State of the Map U.S. are now available on the OpenStreetMap U.S. website.
- June 26, 2024
- Changeset 125,000 is created by mane72.
- July 7, 2024
- Gramps Web can now visualize your family tree on an OpenHistoricalMap base map.
- July 11, 2024
- The site will be in read-only mode for a few hours on Thursday for critical server maintenance. You will not be able to edit the map during this time.
- July 30, 2024
- Join us in celebrating 15 years since OpenHistoricalMap first appeared on the Internet.