OpenStreetMap community often seek for tooling to organize topic-focused contribution projects and monitoring is crucial to set appropriate encouragement in the areas were it's most needed. Dealing with significant amount of daily change files or oversized historical data can be challenging if you want to focus on a given topic among the whole OSM changelog like the needle in the haystack. Podoma is a free software intended to do this hard work for you, guiding you through the change log and counting as quick as no one. It provides web interface, useful API and KPI to be at ease with monitoring specific topics worldwide or around your house in OpenStreetMap.
This talk will introduce Podoma, its basic functionalities and showcase the build of a monitoring project live from the raw OpenStreetMap data.