Timelapse videos

Since OpenStreetMap is updated for more than a decade, some people and organizations produce timelapse videos. They demonstrate the project's growth on a span of several years. Such videos mostly show way edits on a globe or a part of it, set to some music.

Software

• Party render for visualizing GPS traces over time
• MapDiff, a very simple tool written in D
• Osmdiff visualises changes, which can be joined in a timelapse
• OSM Progress, a mapping party renderer by Derick
• Year of Edits by Derick
• OSM History Renderer produces animation from a history dump (see also this diary entry)
• Tutorial about using the ohsome API to visalize the historical evolution of OSM data.

Examples

By ITO World

The most well known producer of OSM timelapse videos is ITO World. Until recently all of these were published on ITO's Vimeo channel. The company also produces geospatial videos (not neccessarily with OSM data) on demand.

A Year of Edits

Since 2008 ITO World has been publishing yearly videos celebrating fast OpenStreetMap growth, titled "A Year of Edits".

• 2008
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011
• 4UP 2008-2011: the four videos above side-by-side
• Celebrating 10 Years, 2004-2014 for Scout/Telenav

Local

• Berlin 2007-2010
• London 2007-2010
• Haiti 2010
• Japan 2007-2011
• US 2007-2012
• Russia 2007-2012
• Indonesia 2013
• Africa 2013-2015
• Prague 2006-2019
• India 2008-2019
• Africa 2010-2019

By Derick Rethans

Derick also produces "A Year of Edits" videos with his open-source toolchain:

• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013

He also made a lot of regional and mapping party videos, which you can find at his Vimeo channel.

By Michael Glanznig

Illustration of changes in openstreetmap-carto style v1.0.0-v2.39.0 (data are not changing):

• Salzburg, Austria - z18
• Salzburg, Austria - z16

Other

• A Week of Changesets by Matt Amos, 2009
• Austria on OpenStreetMap by Karli2000, 2010
• OpenStreetMap Fukushima by Ikiya, 2010
• Year of Edits Moscow Test by Dmitry Platonov, 2010
• German OSM Coverage by Geofabrik, 2012
• European OSM Coverage by Geofabrik, 2012
• Mapping Bangalore by Geofabrik, 2012
• Zelenograd OSM history by OverQuantum, 2012
• A Year of Edits in Germany 2012 by Christoph Muche, 2013
• London OpenStreetMap History by Alan McConchie, 2013
• Krasnoholm mapping party by OverQuantum, 2014
• Los Angeles OpenStreetMap Nodes 2006-2016 by Boris Grushko, 2017
• OpenStreetMap Nodes History 2006-2016 by Boris Gruschko, 2017
• OpenStreetMap Nodes History 2006-2018 by Boris Gruschko, 2018

Mapping Parties

Quite a few mapping party renders can be found in YouTube search results. Here are some of the most impressive:

• Surrey MP, October 2007 by videoalmien
• Saransk Online MP, March 2011 by Artiom Svetlov
• Smolensk MP, May 2011 by Artiom Svetlov
• Abakan Online MP, January 2012 by Artiom Svetlov

See Also

• Videos
• Video tutorials
• OSM Then and Now - not a video but see OSM as it was in 2008 and now side by side. Currently offline.