X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./rails.git/blobdiff_plain/2ec712d6ea48e8be59197bafa89ecf46228e0d7e..9b9e857b726d4a45af5e1b760ac1639cd31f0280:/public/robots.txt

diff --git a/public/robots.txt b/public/robots.txt
index f248bb1ed..2edd47453 100644
--- a/public/robots.txt
+++ b/public/robots.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-Sitemap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/sitemap.xml.gz
+# OpenStreetMap's data is available for free in bulk from https://planet.openstreetmap.org
+# For regional extracts and documentation, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
+# We encourage you to use these instead of scraping our site.
+# Scraping puts a high load on our donated resources and will lead to your IP being blocked.
+# Please respect our resources, and help us keep the service free and accessible for everyone.
 
 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /user/*/traces/
@@ -17,3 +21,5 @@ Disallow: /*lat=
 Disallow: /*node=
 Disallow: /*way=
 Disallow: /*relation=
+
+Host: www.openstreetmap.org