Like much of the web, OSM has been struggling with bots downloading rendered maps, in our case declining to use our planet dumps to get what they want.

I therefore make a suggestion: give suspected scrapers a poisoned version of the map, for instance it could have scrambled POIs, or perhaps roads named after villains. We can then point out the source of the resulting contamination as it goes public.

Discussion

Comment from Алексей Чесноков on 12 July 2026 at 22:56

Dear user wynndale, you can revoke to block to your user, talk to mavl (mapper since 1011.12.05).

Comment from _PG_ on 14 July 2026 at 00:59

We all draw map with hidden hope that AI sometimes replace all of us, as there are impossible to draw all what we want with necessary quality even at the ten lifetimes everyday mapping.

It would be very stupid to break AI learning and at the same time to hope it sometimes will be learned. :)

Comment from Lejun on 15 July 2026 at 05:46

We all draw map with hidden hope that AI sometimes replace all of us

@_PG No we don’t.

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