Upload of photos is failing due to OpenStreetMap's rate limiting (HTTP 429) #4199

adi2k5 · 2026-03-18T20:31:33Z

adi2k5
Mar 18, 2026

Lychee version

7.5.0

Did you check the latest Lychee version?

Yes, I did

Which PHP version are you using?

PHP 8.4

Detailed description of the problem

Uploading more photos at once (at least 25-30 photos) with size of around 1MB each that are being processed quite fast by server, while GPS data showing on map is enabled in Lychee.org, and map provider set to OSM, start to return upload errors after successful upload of first 20-25 photos.
Problem is caused by OpenStreetMap's implementation of rate limiting, that is returning HTTP code 429 when it's API is being aggresively used (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Error_429).

As a workaround, one can upload photos in smaller batches to avoid rate limiting, but that is not too convenient when uploading bigger amounts of photos, thus some rate limiting on Lychee.org side (or implementing some lazy GPS data loading with slower OSM's server querying) could help avoiding that issue.

Using wikimedia as a map provider may not be an option either due to it's external usage policy: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/External_usage

Steps to reproduce the issue

Enable GPS/map with OpenStreetMap
Upload 25+ not too big images with GPS data embedded

Diagnostics [REQUIRED]

Upload to Lychee.org gives following error

[2026-03-18 20:41:00] production.ERROR: 31:/var/www/galeria/app/Jobs/HasFailedTrait.php Client error: `GET https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=jsonv2&lat=56.958138333333&lon=24.110903333333&addressdetails=1&zoom=18&accept-language=pl` resulted in a `429 Too many requests` response:
; caused by
Http\Adapter\Guzzle7\Promise::handleException:110 Client error: `GET https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=jsonv2&lat=56.951653333333&lon=24.11368&addressdetails=1&zoom=18&accept-language=pl` resulted in a `429 Too many requests` response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/ (truncated...)

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Answered by ildyria

Apr 11, 2026

Hopefully fixed with #4275

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ildyria · 2026-03-18T21:01:12Z

ildyria
Mar 18, 2026
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Hummm I can see a few ways to solve this, assuming you can run jobs on separate worker queue, then the throttling is no longer so much of an issue.

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ildyria Apr 11, 2026
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Hopefully fixed with #4275

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