Theres now a Docker image available for the OSM Analytic Difference Engine. This images contains the tracker with a ‘region of interest’ polygon covering Denmark and an Nginx frontend.

Find the source and more information about the OSM Analytic Difference Engine here:

https://github.com/MichaelVL/osm-analytic-tracker

See a running instance here:

https://osm.expandable.dk/

I have put OSM Analytic Difference Engine on github. In short its a backend for a live service providing real-time insight into edits within a region of interest. Special focus has been made to analyse the changesets and provide a concise description of what has changed.

Some of purposes of this engine:

• Prof-of-concept for an improved changeset-info service (improved compared to looking up changeset details on osm.org)
• Provide insight into changes in your area of interest
• Improve team spirit of a regional OSM team/task-force.
• Quality insurance through peer review
• Learning by seeing how other make edits to your region of interest.

The service is available as a web-service and provide three different information elements:

• An overall summary with a overview map containing bounding boxes of recent edits
• A list of changesets with analytic details
• A visual diff for the changes of each changeset (try the ‘VisualDiff’ link on each changeset)

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Keeping OSM updated and in sync with the real (changing) world is in my opinion one of the key challenges for OSM. Adding new roads and POIs is fun - keeping them up to date is less so!

Have you ever come across POIs or roads and made a mental note to yourself to check later in e.g. JOSM if they are on OSM and tagged correctly? I have, and unless I document in detail what I am seeing with photos, there is a good probability that I miss some essential details. Also with photos, I often have lots of photos recording stuff that is already correctly tagged in OSM. Thus the hit/miss ratio is becoming smaller and this will continue as OSM mature.

To help myself spotting differences between the OSM database and the real world I wrote a small Android app that can display OSM data for nearby objects. With this its easy and efficient to be on the lookout for OSM updates.

The app looks like this:

and it can be found on google Play: OSMfocus

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