cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57995511

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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I can't help but wonder if this isn't an effort being done surreptitiously by a well-known producer of online maps, with the intent of strengthening their monopoly.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Unlikely, there are Weekly compilations of all Data/Diffs dedicated for downloading provided. This is most likely from vibe coded stuff just using the live api

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think it isn't:

    • First of all Hanlon's razor.
    • It doesn't affect map users and rendering clients directly, as they display extracts, they don't use the main website directly.
    • Power users also work with offline clients, e.g. I download the data, work on it offline, then upload it, so what I notice from this is sometimes the download or upload times out, but I just retry it and it works after a while. It's annoying, but not a big deal from my point of view.
    • I think it mostly affects casual mappers, who add a lot of very important data, but by volume it's much smaller than the data contributed by the big mappers. There was a very good presentation about this in 2014: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SotM_2014_session:_The_Long_Tail_of_OpenStreetMap
    • It affects mostly sysadmins, who will burn out.
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