CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ISibboI Correct. Not an ounce of brain. It has been going on for months, but it is just getting worse. Waste of their resources/time and ours.

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

@utf_7 In this economy with RAM prices what they are?!?

@JonSaenzAgirre It is a good questions, and we don't know the answer either. Our planet data is so much easier to process and use.

@utf_7 We've had 400,000 IPs in the last 24 hours. Each IP only does a few requests. Technically we're managing, but no fun fighting this daily rather than building new things.

@utf_7 It is madness, start here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1 and keep going once you reach https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10000000000, then start on ways, and relations or just download the latest weekly export from planet.openstreetmap.org

@michel42 We'd like to share the IP address list, but unfortunately don't think we can due to legal concerns.

@boz We will survive and grow stronger thanks to our awesome mapping community We continue to squeeze more capacity out of our servers, but eventually we'll need to upgrade despite the $$$ RAM prices.

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