OSM Then And Now

View OpenStreetMap as it was in June 2007, and compare it to what it looks now.

THIS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.

Watch it in action: http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/

Historic tiles are served from an old home server. Be gentle.

Thanks

• @woodpeck for the help converting the ancient OSM planet file into something
• Switch2OSM for the almost spot on instructions on how to get a tile server running
• @mapbox for the leaflet swipe example

Roll your own

• Clone this
• Change the historic tile layer URL to your own.
• npm install
• bower install
• gulp watch