Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage

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The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data.

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hono4kami

4 months ago

I hope the best for them. One of the online taxis app in my country, Grab, uses them for the map

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