Notices by OpenStreetMap Ops Team (osm_tech@en.osm.town)

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

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

@BalooUriza We use fail2ban to handle some of this with custom rules, but eventually fail2ban becomes a bottleneck after 100,000 IP addresses.

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

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 😏🤖🌍💸

The #OpenStreetMap.org website and API are currently offline due to a global outage #Cloudflare. We are investigating. #OSM

Update: Our site is live again.

OpenStreetMap.org is accessible again. We've worked around the issue. Happy Mapping.

Multilingual *map* support is now live on https://www.OpenStreetMap.org
A new vector tile layer from https://www.maptiler.com/ has been added, supporting multiple languages.
Try it out by selecting that layer and then switch between different languages using language selector. #OpenStreetMap #OSM #i18n 🗺️ 🌐

In June 2025, our tile service at tile.openstreetmap.org set a new record: 1.3 petabytes of data served across 92 billion requests. A big thank you to #Fastly for sponsoring the #CDN that makes this possible. ⚡ 🚀 📈 :openstreetmap: 🗺️

If you are using a Microsoft run email domain such as live.com, outlook.com or hotmail.com to receive email from openstreetmap.org please be aware that Microsoft are currently blocking all email deliveries from our mail server - see https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/1247 for updates

@mvexel This is a whole new level of abuse we're seeing. 32,000+ IPv4 /24 ranges now blocked. Requests being proxied via 2 million+ unique IP addresses. Server ranges and home users. Annoyingly anonymous.

Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

Hey Google's Association Service bot, thank you for the 400,000+ requests for assetlinks.json file over the last 9 hours, but we truly meant it when we said 404 - File Not Found. KThxBye. #abuse

GoogleAssociationService bot was kind enough to ask 1,000,000+ times yesterday for the same file from 4000+ Google IP addresses. Answer was the same 404 - File Not Found. The User-Agent does not provide a support link unlike their other bots.

OpenStreetMap.org is up and running again! Happy Mapping. 🗺️ ❤️ 🚀 Want to know more?: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/openstreetmap-org-currently-offline-operations-team-are-working-to-restore-15-december-2024-updated/122930

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.

Our ISP is currently experiencing an outage in Amsterdam. They are working to repair and currently do not have an ETA. We will continue to monitor.

OpenStreetMap.org will shortly be available READ-ONLY. You will unfortunately NOT be able to save any map edits. We will be running on our backup infrastructure in Dublin. We are working to restore full services and we are waiting for our ISP to restore services in Amsterdam.

Thank you to https://exonetric.com/ for generously hosting a server for us in #Telehouse London over many years - we truly appreciated it. A rock-solid hosting company! 🙏✨

The server has now been retired, and the imagery services have moved to new hardware in Amsterdam. ⚡

🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm). 🌍 https://www.openstreetmap.org/ is now faster using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for the smooth transition. #OpenStreetMap #Debian 🤓