Fuck AI companies! There is good faith use and then there’s whatever the fuck this is. For some reason apps that are actually useful (OsmAnd, CoMaps, Mapy, …) all figured out how to mirror OSM data on their own servers so that it’s only downloaded once per app once per month or so, and then users never interact with osm.org. Meanwhile a trillion-dollar industry can’t figure this shit out!
Fuck AI companies! There is good faith use and then there’s whatever the fuck this is. For some reason apps that are actually useful (OsmAnd, CoMaps, Mapy, …) all figured out how to mirror OSM data on their own servers so that it’s only downloaded once per app once per month or so, and then users never interact with osm.org. Meanwhile a trillion-dollar industry can’t figure this shit out!
It’s not a secret, this page lists like 20 ways how to download data, depending on your use case: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
Unfortunately it requires an actual brain to read and understand that article.
Oh they can. They just won’t.