Speaking as the person running it - introducing API keys would not be a big deal, we do this for a couple paid services already. But speaking as a person frequently wanting to download free stuff from somewhere, I…
Hey there dude downloading italy-latest every 8 seconds, nice to hear from you. I don't think I saw an email from you at info@geofabrik, could you re-try?
Geofabrik guy here. You are right - rate limiting is the way to go. It is not trivial though. We use an array of Squid proxies to serve stuff and Squid's built-in rate limiting only does IPv4. While most over-use comes…
Speaking as the person running it - introducing API keys would not be a big deal, we do this for a couple paid services already. But speaking as a person frequently wanting to download free stuff from somewhere, I…
Hey there dude downloading italy-latest every 8 seconds, nice to hear from you. I don't think I saw an email from you at info@geofabrik, could you re-try?
Geofabrik guy here. You are right - rate limiting is the way to go. It is not trivial though. We use an array of Squid proxies to serve stuff and Squid's built-in rate limiting only does IPv4. While most over-use comes…