OpenStreetMap Ops Team

The OpenStreetMap.org dev team are looking for help! They have a suggestion for your first contribution: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/call-for-code-contributors-explaining-a-cryptic-icon/147991 #rails #bootstrap #dev 🚀

State of the Map 2026 Presentation - Running OpenStreetMap.org in the Age of AI: https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr/w/gsbfGLtNzhPkw2uQzBXo3y #OSM #OpenStreetMap #Operations

To help handle #QGIS load on tile.openstreetmap.org, a new dedicated server, quetzal, joins the QGIS pool today. 🚀 Thank you to @qgis for supporting the hardware purchase! https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/quetzal.openstreetmap.org/

@osm_tech happy sysadmin appreciation day, thanks for all the work and effort to make sure we all can map!

The openstreetmap-website, the codebase that powers our website and API, turns 20 years old today! A big thank you to all the awesome people who built the code that powers #OpenStreetMap https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/20-years-of-openstreetmap-website/145877 🎂 ❤️ :openstreetmap:

We're simplifying privacy options for new GPS trace uploads, making it clearer what permission you are granting. This change will also enable future performance improvements to the GPS points API, which is currently slowed by supporting several different privacy models […]

We have switched to using https://pgBackRest.org/ for backups of our primary database 🗄️, covering both #PostgreSQL base backups and WAL archives. This has allowed us to optimise the weekly planetfile-generation pipeline 🌍, these weekly exports will now be published earlier in the week. A big […]

The maintenance is now complete and the database is back online

There will be a brief period of downtime on the main database at 08:00 UTC to allow some maintenance to be carried out - the downtime should only last five minutes or so

Do you know anyone at Upwork who could help us reach the right team? OpenStreetMap is seeing repeated unauthorised spam from Upwork freelancers. It wastes our time and damages the reputation of the businesses using these "SEO" services.

No #OpenStreetMap planet file has been published for this week, next release will be back to normal schedule. Please use diffs if you cannot wait until then. We had a DB permission mistake which was caught too late to fix this week's planet.

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 […]

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 […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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

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 […]