Now: how OSM is affected by "AI" crawlers due to residential proxies that are embedded in shady SDKs.
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Next problem that affects OSM: "Vibecoders" that "create" an app that uses the OSM APIs without respecting (or even being aware) of the usage policies. #sotm2026
@gedankenstuecke would be interesting to check the access logs for hits on
https://www.openstreetmap.org/llms.txt
https://www.openstreetmap.org/llms-full.txt
and see if that could be a place to teach the ai agents about these things? https://llmstxt.org
And yet another problem the OSM ops team is fighting: SEO spam via outsourced labor to do "citation farming" by getting LLM-generated posts.
8 million accounts suspended in the last 18 months, getting around 400 new accounts of that sort per day.
