Another case of worldwide vandalism today. It has already...

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Another case of worldwide vandalism today. It has already been reverted.

Please remember that OSM tiles are cached. After such worldwide changes, the tile servers are overloaded and refreshing the tiles may take several hours. Lots of people will see an outdated image of OSM data for a few more hours.

Humorous graph showing that it takes about 1 hour to vandalize OSM and 1 hour to fix everything, then another 48 hours dealing with questions of new users asking why the map looks weird.

Like 13 June at 9:08 | Open on mastodon.multimob.be

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buwel

@bxl_forever it's funny cause it's true

(And no amount of pinned forum posts will ever fix this because "my problem is special" 😄)

13 June at 10:03 | Open on social.tchncs.de

b-unicyling

@bxl_forever Yeah, I noticed it myself while I was explaining OSM to a member of the public.

13 June at 17:11 | Open on mastodon.ie

SomeoneElse

@bxl_forever It's not 50 hours - it's nearer 150! Looking at the last incident, we were still getting people creating tickets around 6 days after the problems had been fixed in the data (but not in that user's browser cache, of course).

13 June at 21:50 | Open on en.osm.town

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