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Geofrabrik data

First let's get historical OSM data these can be downloaded from Geofabrik latest and full history select the country and download internal.osh.pbf - OSM login is required to download.

Then grab latest.osm.pbf which is up-to-date file with no history.

Osmium

Download Osmium

Prepare data for certain date as baseline e.g. Jan 1st 2019

osmium time-filter ./czech-republic-internal.osh.pbf 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z -o 2019_CZ_full.pbf

cut the area from whole country to bounding box of interest

osmium extract -b 16.842041,49.0288644,17.0145607,49.1162425 ./2019_CZ_full.pbf -o zdanice_2019.pbf

and optionally convert it to osm xml file (needed for JOSM; not needed for Maperitive)

osmium cat zdanice_2019.pbf -o zdanice_2019.osm

Prepare latest data by cutting the same area

osmium extract -b 16.842041,49.0288644,17.0145607,49.1162425 ./czech-republic-latest.osm.pbf -o zdanice_latest.pbf

remove everything apart from paths and tracks

osmium tags-filter zdanice_latest.pbf w/highway=track,path -o zdanice_latest_cesty.pbf

and optionally convert to osm xml

osmium cat zdanice_latest_cesty.pbf -o zdanice_latest_cesty.osm

Compare

There are varios scripts and tools which can be used like basic perl script Osmdiff or big GIS package QGIS (which I never had luck with to understand it)

I decided to go first with JOSM which's my tool-to-go for map edits. It can open osm xml, but was quite sluggish with the files (filtering historical extract for only some entities would help).

Next I tried Maperitive (sorry, Win only) which I found better option in this case. Simply turning on/off layer with added path/tracks in current data file did the trick (had to edit a bit rules of Maperitive renderer, but that's different story).

2019 -

July 2020 -

Timelapse

To create timelapse more historical snapshots are needed. To avoid processing big file many times I though sorting it would help (note this is pretty RAM intensive operation, for Czech republic - relatively small country - it didn't work on less than 16GB RAM and ate 8GB swap as well).

osmium sort --verbose czech-republic-internal.osh.pbf -o czech-republic-sorted.pbf

however it didn't

osmium extract -b 16.842041,49.0288644,17.0145607,49.1162425 ./czech-republic-sorted.pbf -o zdanice_with_history.pbf
[======================================================================] 100% 
Node ID twice in input. Maybe you are using a history or change file?
This command expects the input file to be ordered: First nodes in order of ID,
then ways in order of ID, then relations in order of ID.

so I wrote perl script to create ways from historical country dump

#! /usr/bin/perl -W
use strict;
use warnings;

sub cut_data() {
	my ($date) = @_;
	system('osmium time-filter czech-republic-internal.osh.pbf ' . $date . '-01T00:00:00Z -o ' . $date . '_CZ_full.pbf');
	system('osmium extract -b 16.842041,49.0288644,17.0145607,49.1162425 ' . $date . '_CZ_full.pbf -o zdanice_' . $date . '.pbf');
	system('rm ' . $date . '_CZ_full.pbf');
	system('osmium tags-filter zdanice_' . $date . '.pbf w/highway=track,path -o zdanice_cesty_' . $date . '.pbf');
	system('rm zdanice_' . $date . '.pbf');
}

&cut_data('2019-03');
&cut_data('2019-05');
&cut_data('2019-07');
&cut_data('2019-09');
&cut_data('2019-11');
&cut_data('2020-01');
&cut_data('2020-03');
&cut_data('2020-05');
&cut_data('2020-07');

this produced point-at-time files with paths and tracks only

ls | grep pbf
zdanice_cesty_2019-03.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2019-05.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2019-07.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2019-09.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2019-11.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2020-01.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2020-03.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2020-05.pbf
zdanice_cesty_2020-07.pbf

In Maperitive make png for each of them (we already have latest and Jan 2019 from earlier on) by simply turning on/off layers and export (CTRL+E).

ls | grep png
2019_01.png
2019_03.png
2019_05.png
2019_07.png
2019_09.png
2019_11.png
2020_01.png
2020_03.png
2020_05.png
2020_07.png
2020_latest.png

To make a movie I used imagemagick's utility convert

convert -delay 100 -quality 100 *.png timelapse.mp4

which produced video below, each frame is one second.

https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/b32b0f29-aadc-48d3-8e65-ee4d5b2a8226

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