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

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Peter Mooney <petermooney78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quick question regarding the OSM API.
[ ... ]
> 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.

Perhaps you have been blocked / throttled.

You should consider using the complete history planet file.  It is
served from another machine without loading the editing API.
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/full-experimental/

You'll have to download more initially, but if you find you want to
experiment with more data, you already have it.