Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage

Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data. .
The outage had started Sunday December 15 at 4:00AM (GMT/UTC), but by Tuesday they'd posted a final update:
Our new ISP is up and running and we have started migrating our servers across to it. If all goes smoothly we hope to have all services