[[ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2020-August/001729.html | Per this email to maps-l ]], in order to manage potential costs and traffic spikes, and allow our maps resources to focus on wiki community uses, we need to **limit access to our maps.wilkimedia.org/osm-intl/ API to ONLY support requests FROM the Wikimedia cluster.**
This means that uses of maps on the Wikimedia wikis, Cloud Services hosted tools, and any internal development or testing tools should **NOT** be affected.
Requests made from all other domains should be declined. There is an existing patch for this at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/570156
Per the announcement, we will give 45 days for the shutdown to occur, so this ticket should go into effect Monday Oct 12th.
**If you have a free knowledge related use case that’s impacted by this announcement, please let us know below, or at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Maps .**