2026-02-11 14:12 UTC
@luis_in_brief Historically we've been able to run OpenStreetMap very lean: a small volunteer sysadmin/SRE team and minimal, low-cost refurbished hardware. Both are now being pushed to breaking point. And most annoyingly, the scrapes are trying to get data we ALREADY PUBLISH as complete weekly compressed downloads on planet.osm.org
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@luis_in_brief@social.coop 2026-02-11 14:35
@osm_tech someone from WMF told me that they have scrapers from the same IP downloading their *monthly* compressed file every *minute*. The scrapers, besides being malicious, are also often very dumb.