LiveMapViewer

LiveMapViewer
Author:	User:Amm
License:	(free of charge)
Platforms:	Windows, Linux, and macOS
Version:	(2012-04-05)
Website:	http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/misc/LiveEditMapViewerJ.jar
Source code:	https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/LiveEditMapViewer
Programming language:	Java
Simple tool to see live changes in OSM.
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 yes 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 ?

A LiveEditMapViewer screenshot showing a bunch of new nodes.

LiveMapViewer ( http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/misc/LiveEditMapViewerJ.jar ) is a tool to see live changes based on Planet.osm diff.

The tool is developed by User:Amm.

Legend

The colored dots have the following meaning:

blue = new node
green = modified node
red = deleted node

Usage

Once the tool was started, it downloads the latest diffs (once a minute) and draws the created / modified / deleted nodes on a slippy map. You can navigate in the slippy map in the same way as in the slippy map on the OpenStreetMap.org homepage.

Shift-Clicking on a node will open up more information about the node in your browser (shows the OSM-browse page for the node).

The way LiveEditMapViewer is written, it is quite resource intensive, so watching the whole world for a long time might not be possible. You can however specify a bounding box to limit the area you want to watch. This can be done by specifying bounding box parameters when starting LiveEditMapViewer. E.g. "java -jar LiveEditMapViewerJ.jar -12.0 35.0 45.00 72.00" would watch changes done in Europe. Or, if you want to watch to whole world, just occasionally restart.

Binary

http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/misc/LiveEditMapViewerJ.jar

Note: During the redaction period as part of the changes for the new licence change, the URL for the minute diffs have moved. You should use this binary (iveEditMapViewerJ-redaction.jar) in the meantime:

http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/misc/LiveEditMapViewerJ-redaction.jar

Source

LiveEditMapViewerJ is open source and the source code can be found in the OSM SVN repository at (https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/LiveEditMapViewer).

See also

• OSM Live (http://datenkueche.com/osmlive/) - Similar idea implemented in javascript (AJAX)
• List of OSM-based services