2026-01-20 13:30 UTC
The stupid things OpenStreetMap ops team have to deal with:
"Some lovely company thought the best way to check if this app is online is to do a very expensive query against OpenStreetMap... every 3 seconds... with hundreds of instances of this app" https://youtu.be/qhie14YKa-w?si=9_jsShC_IeJQFKWP&t=565
Great SOTMEU talk by @Firefishy
#sotmeu #sotmeu25 #openstreetmap @osm_tech
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@InsertUser@en.osm.town 2026-01-20 18:02
@harry_wood @Firefishy @osm_tech can you just offer no response to a query like that? Silently drop the connection like they are in fact offline?
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@mvexel@en.osm.town 2026-01-20 19:54
@harry_wood @Firefishy @osm_tech Hanlon’s Razor on full display.