@vampirdaddy @osm_tech this seems a reasonable explanation. Quantity of bytes irrespective of sense. Thank you
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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. -
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.@osm_tech question. Why do people scrape server which make the data freely available? And, probably, better structured in the final product. I don't see the point.