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://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/issues/841 […]

Fastly's VCL + bot management is incredibly powerful. Running custom logic directly at the edge gives us huge flexibility when protecting and operating #OpenStreetMap services. ⚙️

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! 🚀

CINC CINC is not Chef

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

AI chatbots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it: In recent weeks, openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones […]

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@gme Anubis is great, but not ideal for us. We have reasonable technical mitigations in place, but it is unfortunately an arms race (and time/resource blackhole)

@ISibboI Correct. Not an ounce of brain. It has been going on for months, but it is just getting worse. Waste of their resources/time and ours.

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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

We've temporarily removed the block. We're still waiting to hear from Delhivery: Our contact details are available here: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/

Sorry to all their customers with delayed deliveries. How about mapping your area while you wait for your parcel? 😉 […]

@fm_volker We do, there is an example tile: https://pnorman.github.io/osm-leaflet-demo/ (error they receive is slightly different)

Screenshot from Grafana dashboard showing tile.osm.org requests per second with 50% drop off (drop of ~2k req/s) just after 5:20 UTC.

The app was responsible for over 2k req/s. Here is when we blocked it.

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 […]

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 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 […]

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've had to temporarily block new OpenStreetMap.org account sign-ups coming from Tor due to sustained abuse by a bad actor. #OpenStreetMap #tor #abuse

Today #OpenStreetMap received an incredibly generous 2 BTC #Bitcoin donation - Thank you so much! ₿❤️🙏

Around this time last year, a 1 BTC gift made a real difference in keeping our servers and services running. 2026 looks extremely challenging with rapidly rising hardware costs.

If you'd like […]

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 […]

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 […]

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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: github.com/openstreetmap/openstreet...
#Vector #IterativeDevelopment

Copped screenshot from Bitcoin client showing a donation of 0.00013337 BTC. 1337 / elite.

❤️ The #bitcoin donation! Thank you. Here is your super secret download link: https://planet.osm.org/ #1337

For a larger donation we'll even provide our full history data via a fresh weekly #torrent download. #planet #download #odbl #licensed 😏🤖🌪️

OpenStreetMap bitcoin donation QR code: 1J3pt9koWJZTo2jarg98RL89iJqff9Kobp

Pssst: We even accept donations via #bitcoin 1J3pt9koWJZTo2jarg98RL89iJqff9Kobp 💵 💰 :openstreetmap:

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 😏🤖🌍💸

standard UTF8 encoding for MediaWiki databases · Issue #373 · openstreetmap/operations I would like to ask you to change the character encoding of the MySQL databases for MediaWiki installations to utf8mb4 encoding. It looks like they currently use utf8 which means that it uses three...

The #OpenStreetMap wiki has now been upgraded to fully support UTF8 encoding to allow all unicode characters. Previously the wiki used mysql's old incomplete utf8 encoding. Background: https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/373 🤓

The #OpenStreetMap iD editor is now published as an npm package 🎉 https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openstreetmap/id - instead of merging iD releases into the website code, we just bump a dependency. Easier releases for the website and iD dev teams. Huge thanks to @tyr and all involved! 🚀 🗺️

Looking for sysadmin help with new OpenStreetMap Spyglass service The Operations Working Group plans to host a copy of OpenStreetMap Spyglass (formerly OSM X-RAY). The goal is to replace the current data layer on openstreetmap.org. Since this is a self-contained new service, we see it as a chance to bring in new people to help with ops and sysadmin tasks. If you have relevant experience, we’d love your help. If this sounds like you, please get in touch with us at operations@osmfoundation.org. We can mentor you on the specifics of our OpenStreetMap setup, incl...

Want to get hands-on #SysAdmin / #DevOps experience with mentoring?

We're looking for a volunteer to help run a new #OpenStreetMap Spyglass service: community.openstreetmap.org/t/looking-for-sysadmin-h... 🎓 🤓 :openstreetmap:

ApiClientException - Answer not uploaded · Issue #6626 · streetcomplete/StreetComplete How to Reproduce Answer an open question on the map. A dialog appears saying "Error uploading the answer. Try again later." The previously given answer to the open question was not uploaded to the ...

@streetcomplete A fix for the for the issue affecting StreetComplete users has been implemented. More info? github.com/streetcomplete/StreetCom...

What’s new on the OpenStreetMap website? More dark mode, less missing data Here we are yet again! These are the changes we made to the website since the last update. User interface We updated iD to version 2.37, which includes Dark Mode! This goes hand in hand with new preferences to let you choose different color modes for website, map, and editor. Remember that to see the map in dark mode, you’ll have to select the Shortbread or Transport Map layers. We also applied a MapLibre update enabling italics for CJK text. This can be seen ...

What’s new on the #OpenStreetMap website? (November 2025 edition): community.openstreetmap.org/t/what-s-new-on-the-open... #OSM #WhatIsNew

We have identified the issue affecting @streetcomplete users and hope to fix soon.