[OSM-talk] Overpass XAPI URL Status

[Paul Norman]

On 9/14/2016 11:04 AM, mmd wrote:
> Am 14.09.2016 um 09:30 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt:
>> >I help support a large company that uses OSM data, pulled via a specific
>> >query at  xxxx://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi
>> ><http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi>. This query runs about once a month.
> xapi endpoint is the only service that is blocked right now. That's due
> to one particular mobile app firing off excessive amounts of queries.
> Details are also known to the OSMF board.

There's been questions about this and I want to clarify that

- Overpass runs on FOSSGIS Germany hardware, not OSMF hardware

- The OSMF board is not involved and has not been sent any details, nor 
do we need to be involved

Even if it were on OSMF hardware, scrapers and badly behaving apps are 
an sysadmin/ops issue and not one the board would normally need to get 
involved with.

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