Unusally heavy boydsmaps usage

Boyd

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Looking at the logfile, we had just about the busiest 24 hours I've ever seen. That's great, the site is here for you to use! But looking closer, much of it appeared to come from one person. I don't snoop on users or watch their activity, I just look at summaries of how much data is transferred, how many map tiles are accessed and how many people are accessing them. I also see the number of tiles and amount of data from each unique IP address.

The usage from this IP address was way beyond reasonable and suggests that somebody was mass downloading maps. Everyone is welcome to browse the maps, use them on their computers/phones and take screenshots to their hearts content. But please don't try to download them to use for other purposes, that's not what the site is for. I'll update the terms of use soon to make this clear and will probably also require everyone to click "I agree" to the rules.

I have blocked access from that IP address and will block others in the future if needed. Again, we're talking about extremely large amounts of data, many times greater than I've ever seen from a single IP address in one day. But maybe there's a good explanation? If they're an NJPB member, they can send me a private message (click on my avatar and choose "start conversation").

Think of boydsmaps like a party at my place where everyone's welcome and the food and drinks are free. Party all night, but don't fill your cooler with the free beer and take it home. :)
 
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Boyd said:
Looking at the logfile, we had just about the busiest 24 hours I've ever seen. That's great, the site is here for you to use! But looking closer, much of it appeared to come from one person. I don't snoop on users or watch their activity, I just look at summaries of how much data is transferred, how many map tiles are accessed and how many people are accessing them. I also see the number of tiles and amount of data from each unique IP address.

The usage from this IP address was way beyond reasonable and suggests that somebody was mass downloading maps. Everyone is welcome to browse the maps, use them on their computers/phones and take screenshots to their hearts content. But please don't try to download them to use for other purposes, that's not what the site is for. I'll update the terms of use soon to make this clear and will probably also require everyone to click "I agree" to the rules.

I have blocked access from that IP address and will block others in the future if needed. Again, we're talking about extremely large amounts of data, many times greater than I've ever seen from a single IP address in one day. But maybe there's a good explanation? If they're an NJPB member, they can send me a private message (click on my avatar and choose "start conversation").

Think of boydsmaps like a party at my place where everyone's welcome and the food and drinks are free. Party all night, but don't fill your cooler with the free beer and take it home. :)
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Too bad you can't find the culprit. It makes zero sense to do what they are doing. They will be useless in efficiency at the very least.
 
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Thanks, but not looking to catch anyone. And there might be a perfectly good explanation anyway... at my "party" I notice the refrigerator is empty and naturally assume somebody is taking it home. But then I notice that Big Eddie has been sitting in the corner all night eating pizza and drinking lots of beer. :D
 
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Boyd said:
Thanks, but not looking to catch anyone. And there might be a perfectly good explanation anyway... at my "party" I notice the refrigerator is empty and naturally assume somebody is taking it home. But then I notice that Big Eddie has been sitting in the corner all night eating pizza and drinking lots of beer. :D
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You need to throw Big Eddy out the door.
 
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I see somebody else had a suspiciously huge number of hits at boydsmaps last night, apparently attempting to download the 24k topos and also generating over 10,000 errors accessing nonexistent map tiles. Especially suspicious since this person was using a Linux system.

It's impossible for me to tell exactly what they were up to and I suppose it could be somebody staying up all night binging on the topo. But just a "word to the wise"... Don't try to mass download the maps on my site, that's not what it's for. So far, this seems pretty rare, but if it becomes more common, that's a good way to get me to completely pull the plug on the site. And if I get mad enough to do that, it will just be the end with no further discussion. If you know who is doing this, please ask them to stop.
 
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