Hi Nicholas, I would say the general mailing list 'talk' or the technical working group may be better suited than the HOT list for your request.
See also: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_usage_policy "To avoid having your access blocked, please discuss your requirement with system administrators either via their wiki pages or on the IRC channel prior to starting." http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/System_Administrators Apart from that, some free and unchecked advice: - consider offline editor JOSM - use iD with zoom close in, not downloading large areas Best of luck. althio On 20 June 2015 at 08:43, Nicholas Doiron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working with The Asia Foundation to run an OpenStreetMap map-a-thon in > Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. We have 17 teams of 3 people, mostly students and > city planners, mapping unplanned areas of the city (ger districts) > > At 3:30pm local time, we got a 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error on most teams' > machines, so we had to end our first day early. No one's data is lost, but > we can't download existing data into iD, so every map area looks blank. > There was a risk we would add the same building many times. > > Is there a way for us to re-enabling editing before tomorrow morning? And > keep the gates open for another 48 hours or so? > I'll do my part by closing a couple of apps (including Show Me The Way from > OSM Labs) which were running at the time > > Regards, > Nick Doiron > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
