Our data is already publish via torrent, see https://planet.openstreetmap.org
Our data, including minutely updates is available via public S3 buckets (EU & US) supported by the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program.
As expected. Now for the hard part: how to redirect scrapers to use torrents, and keep them uploading data? Should we write some "data scraping tutorials" specifically targeting OSM and describe using torrents as the best method?
butz|1 year ago