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An outage at their Amsterdam ISP<\/abbr> knocked OpenStreetMap offline on Sunday; they\u2019ve spent the past two days in read-only mode via their secondary server in Dublin but appear to be back up and running as of 8:45 AM EST<\/abbr> today. Details at the OSM<\/abbr> community forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An outage at their Amsterdam ISP knocked OpenStreetMap offline on Sunday; they\u2019ve spent the past two days in read-only mode via their secondary server in Dublin but appear to be back up and running as… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[386,1199],"class_list":["post-1835382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-web-mapping","tag-openstreetmap","tag-outages","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790245,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835382,"position":0},"title":"100 Million Edits to OpenStreetMap","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The 100 millionth edit to OpenStreetMap was uploaded today, the OpenStreetMap Blog reports. \u201cThis milestone represents the collective contribution of nearly 1 billion features globally in the past 16+ years, by a diverse community of over 1.5 million mappers.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In "Web Mapping"","block_context":{"text":"Web Mapping","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/web-mapping\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785013,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/openstreetmap-in-serious-trouble\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835382,"position":1},"title":"OpenStreetMap ‘In Serious Trouble’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 February 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Much chatter on Twitter about a blog post criticizing OpenStreetMap that made it to the front page of Hacker News; problem is, said chatter hasn't been linking to said blog post. 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