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		direwolf20 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data More like hammered by Google and Apple so you'll use their apps instead.

petre 18 days ago | [–]

Unlikely. The data is freely available for download from geofabrik and other sources.

direwolf20 18 days ago | | [–]

The data is, the app isn't. OSM provides a giant data dump, not a way to view maps

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