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• Post #4176031

  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:

• Post #4068244

  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

• Post #3785802

  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! 🙌

• Post #2740357

  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.

• Post #2740356

  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.

• Post #2740355

  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.

• Post #2454403

  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

• Post #1902309

  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)

• Post #1506156

  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

• Post #1437529

  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 🎁🥳

• Post #1345282

  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

• Post #1163099

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

• Post #1025812

  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! 🚀

• Post #684746

  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

• Post #684743

  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 ❤️🗺️🌐

• Post #676990

  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 😏🤖🌍💸

• Post #514709

  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

• Post #289710

  Thank you to all who have reached out to offer help and support! We have good technical mitigations in place to ensure our websites and API continue to be available for our awesome mappers. A large residential-proxy network has been identified, and we are reviewing options on how we can get them to stop. Our full "planet" export data remains available and as always free to download. 😎🔧🚧

• Post #289709

  We'd love to hear from the Delhivery.com team. Our tile.openstreetmap.org service is run by volunteers and funded by donations. We've had to block Delhivery's app from using our tile service due to the strain it placed on us. We tried reaching out, but were directed to their app not available in our team's region. Large users: please self-host or use a provider: https://switch2osm.org ⛔ 🌐 🇮🇳 #india

• Post #257482

  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

• Post #162095

  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

• Post #160440

  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