hfs
February 11, 2026, 12:57pm
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When opening https://osm.org/ I’m getting “Access blocked” tiles. When opening https://openstreetmap.org/ it works.
Is it something on my end or a misconfiguration on OSM’s side?
Isn’t osm.org supposed to redirecto to openstreetmap.org such that the address expands in the browser bar?
TrickyFoxy
(Tricky Foxy)
February 11, 2026, 1:02pm
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I have this happening with openstreetmap.org
This is probably a consequence of this:
The OpenStreetMap.org Operations Team has recently made improvements to the tile.openstreetmap.org raster map tile service.
Over the month of July 2025, the tile.openstreetmap.org service handled an enormous amount of traffic - responding to 121 billion tile requests with a weekday daily peak of about 70 000 requests per second and peak bandwith of 6-7 Gbps. The total monthly bandwidth usage was 1.4 Petabytes (that’s 1 400 000 Gigabytes)
Cleanups to blocks
The code in our configuration that ha…
trial
(Trial)
February 11, 2026, 1:03pm
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It works (how ever during a short interval, the certificates for https:www.openstreetmap.org were associated wrongly only to fastly.net ). Can you retry?
hfs
February 11, 2026, 1:08pm
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It works again. Thanks everyone and especially the ops team.
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TrickyFoxy
(Tricky Foxy)
February 11, 2026, 1:26pm
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You are confusing the scrapping of website pages and map tiles.
Firefishy
(Firefishy)
February 11, 2026, 1:31pm
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It was caused by a bug in some AI scraper protection code I deployed (since fixed). It incorrectly trigged an issue with tile.openstreetmap.org service for some users.
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