We have draft tile usage policy document on the wiki [1] but not a generic one that includes the API as far as I can see. We should either add something to the Getting Data [2] page or extend the tile useage page to cover the API as well?
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Getting_Data Jeffrey, if Tom's assertion is correct and you can confirm what you were up to and that you will use planet in future for bulk data we can get your IP opened up again. Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Tom Hughes >Sent: 14 May 2009 8:32 AM >To: Jeffrey Warren >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] API 0.6 returns 403 forbidden > >Jeffrey Warren wrote: >> Hi, I suddenly started getting "403 - Forbidden" from my any machine. I >> also get a 403 when i simply go to "www.openstreetmap.org >> <http://www.openstreetmap.org>" in a browser (just discovered this...). >> Have I been blacklisted or is this an outage? > >I suspect you're the person I blocked last night because you were >apparently trying to scrape map data from the API with a large number of >presumably automated map calls. > >If you are the person I blocked then in the last four days you've made a >total of 8186 map calls, an average of about 1.5 a minute. > >If you want bulk data, please use the planet dump not the API to get it. > >Tom > >-- >Tom Hughes ([email protected]) >http://www.compton.nu/ > >_______________________________________________ >dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
