>Just the other day, one user has managed to download almost 10,000 copies of the italy-latest.osm.pbf file in 24 hours!

Whenever I have done something like that, it's usually because I'm writing a script that goes something like:

1. Download file 2. Unzip file 3. Process file

I'm working on step 3, but I keep running the whole script because I haven't yet built a way to just do step 3.

I've never done anything quite that egregious though. And these days I tend to be better at avoiding this situation, though I still commit smaller versions of this crime.

My solution to this is to only download if the file doesn't exist. An additional bonus is that the script now runs much faster because it doesn't need to do any expensive networking/downloads.

10,000 times a day is on average 8 times a second. No way someone has 8 fixes per second, this is more like someone wanted to download a new copy every day, or every hour but they messed up milliseconds config or something. Or it's simply malicious user.

edit: bad math, it's 1 download every 8 seconds

When I do scripts like that I modify it to skip the download step and keep the old file around so I can test the rest without anything time-consuming.