OpenStreetMap Access blocked: App is not following the tile usage policy

[RBhupi]

Pipeline stage where the bug occurs

Other / unknown

Adapt version

0.1.4

Radar site and data source

All sites

What happened?

Map backgrounds shows following message

Access blocke
App is not folloning tile usage policy of 
OpenStreetMap's volunteer-run servers:
osm.wiki/Blocked
403

Steps to reproduce

In plots of Adapt. Not tested in Dashboard.

Full error message or traceback

Configuration file (redact credentials)

Environment

MacOS

Checklist

• I checked the documentation and existing issues
• I can reproduce this consistently
• This occurs on the latest release

[RBhupi]

This is happening due to frequent request from Adapt. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Blocked_tiles

General block

If the tile mentions the more general "not following the tile usage policy" then review the tile usage policy closely.

Your application may be overwhelming our servers and hitting limits for a variety of reasons.

Misidentification: all tile requests must be identifiable to a particular website or application. For websites, #Referer is required. For applications, requests must contain a proper, unique and identifiable User-Agent. Incorrect, spoofed or non-existent identification may result in rejected requests.

Scraping: fetching too many tiles for an extended period of time is considered bulk downloading, which is not allowed. If you wish to copy/back up map data, consider downloading Planet.osm or its regional subsets instead.

Lack of rate-limiting: downloading tiles too quickly affects servers' ability to provide tiles to others in a timely manner. If your application is known for that behavior, it may be blocked.

No caching: downloading the same tiles repeatedly, due to improper response caching, can also result in blocking. Make sure no Cache-Control: no-cache or Pragma: no-cache headers are present.

[RBhupi]

I will now remove plotting from main Adapt library. It is downloading from OSM for every plotting call.

[RBhupi]

We will store the tiles into the ~/.adapt directory for each radar that has been accessed and reuse it.