A useful website where you can transform OpenStreetMap data to GIS data (Shapefile, GML, KML, etc):
OSM2GIS: http://www.osm974.re/osm2gis
Downloads are limited to extent size (but much larger then on the OSM site itself), and in time (one download per 24h).
The reasearch topic 'Web animation out-of-the-box' could also draw from the example of the RIMapper/TimeMapper project. This is a testbed for the use of distributed webservices for the generation of web-based animated, interactive vector maps. It is implemented as an OGC–compliant WMS (Web Map Service) that serializes spatio–temporal data from a database backend as Scalable Vector Graphics. The SVG is used in a web browser to show animated maps with a built–in user–interface. This interface allows the user to interact with both the spatial and the temporal dimensions of the data.
Since January 1, many of the Dutch governmental data sets have been made available as "open webservices". Especially those WMS and TMS (WMS tiles) that were part of the PDOK project "publieke diensten op de kaart" (http://www.geonovum.nl/dossiers/pdok/diensten), like Top10NL, AHN, National Road data, etcetera. You can see all of them in the PDOK viewer demo site at http://nieuwsinkaart.nl/pdok/
Even some WFS test services are there...!
