Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.50pm, Friday, 18th October 2013]

The problem is that IP belongs to a server farm rather than typical end user address space, and as such is a common source of spam.

Are you using a VPN provider or something?

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.51pm, Friday, 18th October 2013]

Oh hang on you're talking about nominatim, not the web site... I'll pass this over to the right people.

Author: jim[at]satcomtechnology.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.55pm, Friday, 18th October 2013]

Our server is hosted on Rackspace but we've had it there for a couple of years.

The strange thing is that we don't use open street map directly due to limitations.

We use http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?latlng= and http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/reverse?format=xml but looking at them now, it doesn't seem that we are blocked.

Strange!

Jim

Author: twain
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.11pm, Friday, 18th October 2013]

Hi.

There is a block in the mapquest nominatim log for your ip on Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:25:07 +0000. But only a single instance and nothing since. It has been automatically removed some time ago.

Can you provide the full request url you are using?

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Brian

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.36pm, Friday, 18th October 2013]

As Brian said you should rather contact MapQuest about your usage. The error message certainly did not come from the osm.org server as we have changed it to something different about 9 months ago.

[https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/commit/3470abad079927d5ee3b659865a940b5703f8551 Fixed the error message] for blocked IPs in Nominatim, so that they do not get sent to this trac by default.

Author: jim[at]satcomtechnology.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.11am, Monday, 21st October 2013]

Guys,

Thanks again for the quick replies, this happening late on a Friday .... had me worried.

Just on geocoding - any recommendations of providers like MapQuest? Either free or paid.

Jim

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.52am, Monday, 21st October 2013]

I'm not aware of any other providers for geocoding based on OSM data. If you produce enough traffic to run into MQ's usage limits you might actually want to consider [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation running your own instance of Nominatim].

Author: jim[at]satcomtechnology.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.24pm, Monday, 21st October 2013]

Isn't life strange, I'm only out of a team meeting where I've proposed exactly that! ;)