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		zeeZ 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data Their data is freely available to download. There are weekly dumps of the entire planet and several sources for partial data. There's no need for most legitimate use cases to scrape their API.

dzhiurgis 3 months ago [–]

So problem is someone is stupid enough scraping without realizing they can just download 100gb at once?

And there are so many of such idiots that it's overwhelming their servers?

Something doesn't math here.

tencentshill 89 days ago | [–]

That's exactly the case. It's been an issue for a while.

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