[OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

[Peter Mooney]

Hi all,

Quick question regarding the OSM API.

I have a server setup for my OSM research - it has a very fast Internet
link. My personal, home, broadband is much slower and limited to 5Gb per
month.

Anyway during April I downloaded the history files (in OSM-XML) for a couple
of thousand ways. I just dumped wget commands into a bash script and let it
chug away. The total size of all the XML files is about 1200 Mb.

Anyway wanted to download an addition 2,000 ways (their full history) from
the same machine today
- example "wget http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/2048/history -O
./world-xml/history-2048.xml"

I keep getting an ERROR 303 .. The error message doesn't make sense to me.

However when I try this command from my machine at home - it downloads no
problem.

Have I found myself on a "banned" list? It would not be my intention to hog
resources on anyone else - but I didn't think the requests were excessive.
It took a couple of days to download the history files - i put an hour pause
into the bash script after every 500 files downloaded.

Suggestions, work-arounds?

Thanks,

Peter
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