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OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data

13 points • by molly_radstowe • today at 1:23 AM • 6 comments • view on HN

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CqtGLRGcukpy • today at 2:12 AM

They also posted about this on Mastodon / Fedi: https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech/115968544599864782

molly_radstowe • today at 1:23 AM

#OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks.

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phillipseamore • today at 1:40 AM

The number of idiotic vibe coded repos I've seen on GH lately that are doing things like crawling OSM for POI data is mindboggling!