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Grant Slater

Dear AI Companies, instead of sneakily scraping OpenStreetMap.org, how about a tiny $10,000 donation? We'll even throw in a shiny new download link to our entire planet's geo data! Who knew it was that easy? Start here: supporting.openstreetmap.org/d #win #ai #bots #OpenStreetMap 🌍 🤖 🤑

30 July at 12:56 | Open on en.osm.town
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Bart Louwers

@Firefishy@osm.town Scraping OpenStreetMap. 🤦 First time I see that combination of words.

30 July at 13:10 | Open on floss.social
Grant Slater

@bart Unfortunately it is extremely common. Sometimes 100s of req/s hitting expensive API endpoints. Multiple IPs, faked UAs.

30 July at 13:24 | Open on en.osm.town
wikiyu

@Firefishy @bart why scrap when there is planet.osm available?

30 July at 14:18 | Open on infosec.exchange
Grant Slater

@wikiyu @bart Sssssh! Don't give away our secret s̶a̶u̶c̶e̶ source. Honestly, no idea. The full planet.osm data would be a lot easier to use than painfully slow scraped data.

30 July at 14:22 | Open on en.osm.town
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Grant Slater

But wait there is more, for a $50,000 donation we'll even provide live minutely streaming updates direct from OpenStreetMap.org. #WIN #AI #Bots #OpenStreetMap

30 July at 13:34 | Open on en.osm.town
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