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  UPDATE: Services are restored. For now we've been able to hold back the tide of AI crawlers. The OpenStreetMap.org website and API are struggling. We are fighting a large set of AI crawlers / scrapers. Working to restore service as soon as possible. #AI #Scrapers

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  Do you know anyone at Upwork who could help us reach the right team? OpenStreetMap is seeing repeated unauthorised spam from Upwork freelancers. It wastes our time and damages the reputation of the businesses using these "SEO" services.

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  We are aware of the issues with the tile.openstreetmap.org service at the moment and are investigating. #OpenStreetMap #DDOS UPDATE: Service is now returning to normal, but we are continuing to investigate cause.

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  There will be a brief period of downtime on the main database at 08:00 UTC to allow some maintenance to be carried out - the downtime should only last five minutes or so UPDATE: The maintenance is now complete and the database is back online.

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  The maintenance is now complete and the database is back online

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  To help handle #QGIS load on tile.openstreetmap.org, a new dedicated server, quetzal, joins the QGIS pool today. 🚀 Thank you to @qgis for supporting the hardware purchase! https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/quetzal.openstreetmap.org/

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  openstreetmap-website, the codebase that powers our website and API, turns 20 years old today! A big thank you to all the awesome people who built the code that powers #OpenStreetMap https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/20-years-of-openstreetmap-website/145877 🎂 ❤️ :openstreetmap:

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  We're simplifying privacy options for new GPS trace uploads, making it clearer what permission you are granting. This change will also enable future performance improvements to the GPS points API, which is currently slowed by supporting several different privacy models. https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/changes-coming-to-gps-trace-uploads/145728

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  We have switched to using https://pgBackRest.org for backups of our primary database 🗄️, covering both #PostgreSQL base backups and WAL archives. This has allowed us to optimise the weekly planetfile-generation pipeline 🌍, these weekly exports will now be published earlier in the week. A big thank you to the #pgBackRest team for a great product! 🙌

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  New #OpenStreetMap Planet Replication Diffs are suspended for next few hours due to maintenance. Sorry for the disruption. #Ops UPDATE: Maintenance has been completed and the service is back to normal.

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  The #OpenStreetMap community forum https://community.openstreetmap.org/ will be offline for a few minutes due to system upgrades. #upgrades #OS UPDATE: Maintenance has been completed.

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  No #OpenStreetMap planet file has been published for this week, next release will be back to normal schedule. Please use diffs if you cannot wait until then. We had a DB permission mistake which was caught too late to fix this week's planet.

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  Sorry to #QGIS users having trouble loading #OpenStreetMap tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org. We've had to heavily rate-limit QGIS after bulk tile usage risked disrupting service for other users. We're working with the QGIS team to distinguish bulk requests from normal interactive use. Could you donate a large server to help add tile capacity? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_Rendering

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  OpenStreetMap.org is currently offline due to network outage. We are investigating. UPDATE 11:30am UTC/GMT. Website returning read-only on backup infrastructure. The outage affecting our primary services continues. UPDATE: All up and running again (17 Dec 2024 13:45 UTC/GMT)

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  We've temporarily removed the block. We're still waiting to hear from Delhivery: Our contact details are available here: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/ Sorry to all their customers with delayed deliveries. How about mapping your area while you wait for your parcel? 😉 https://www.openstreetmap.org/fixthemap 🗺️ ❤️

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  The app was responsible for over 2k req/s. Here is when we blocked it. Traffic is a portion of requests we serve in India.

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  OpenStreetMap.org's Standard Map Layer is now running the latest release of OSM Carto: v6.0.0 🗺️ 🎉 This is a major release with a significant number of improvements. Huge thanks to everyone involved in making it happen 🙌 More details: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/imagico/diary/408344 https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/issues/841 https://github.com/openstreetmap-carto/openstreetmap-carto/issues/5184

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  @luis_in_brief We're faced with 1) Investing yet more time to come up with fingerprint protections to stop the abusive site scraping (which are side stepping all previous traditional controls; like robots.txt and individual IP address blocks) or 2) Buy additional hardware resources (at over inflated prices due to RAM/Flash pricing balloon).

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  Mappy Christmas #OpenStreetMap 🎄🗺️ If you fancy a Christmas or Boxing day walk, @everydoor https://streetcomplete.app @vespucci_editor or https://osm.wiki/Go_Map!! make great company for a little mapping adventure. 🚶‍♂️📍📱 Thank you for all the awesome mapping, fixing, and improvements this year 🎁🥳

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  The first part of the #OpenStreetMap website now uses @maplibre to display the map on the dashboard: https://www.openstreetmap.org/dashboard 🗺️ This is just the start - more improvements to follow: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6504 #Vector #IterativeDevelopment

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  Our friends at @OpenStreetMapUS have publicly launched their OSM US Tile service today: https://openstreetmap.us/news/2025/09/tileservice-general-availability/ #osmus #vector 🚀 🗺️

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  Yesterday we switched the OpenStreetMap.org website and API to Fastly to help protect our services from abusive scrapers and other threats. We already rely on Fastly for several other services - huge thanks! 🚀

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  Do you have deep #AWS #SecOps or #DevOps experience? We're seeking help to harden #OpenStreetMap's AWS accounts 🔐. Exploring IAM Roles Anywhere; most infra is #OpenTofu #IaC. Stack includes EC2 (limited), S3 + replication, Athena/Glue, CloudWatch & CloudTrail. Come chat to us at @sotmeu https://2025.stateofthemap.eu/ #OSM #sotmeu #SotMEU2025

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  We need YOUR help! 🫵 Are you maintaining (or have you spotted) a website / app using old or incorrect tile.openstreetmap.org tile URLs? There are tens of thousands out there, and they need to be updated. Please check your projects, shared examples, and help us fix them: https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/737 ❤️🗺️🌐

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  Special offer for AI companies: for a modest donation to #OpenStreetMap we'll give you a direct download link to our data in a machine-friendly format. Much quicker than juggling 100,000 IPs to scrape our website. Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ #ODbL #licensed #planet 😏🤖🌍💸

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  We've migrated our server configuration management to CINC - the free-as-in-freedom build of Progress Chef. Huge thanks to the CINC team ❤️ https://cinc.sh/ CC: https://fosstodon.org/@ramereth #OpenSource #DevOps #Infrastructure #SRE

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  https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI

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  To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping. If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at https://planet.openstreetmap.org 🙏🌍 #AI #Bots #Abuse

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  If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse