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		Show HN: I like knowing what's being built nearby, so I made a crowd-sourced map (builtsoon.com)
		7 points by aschmelyun on Oct 7, 2019 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

jakecopp on Oct 11, 2019 | [–]

Looks great! Though, why not pull buildings under construction from OpenStreetMap like this? (just hit run) https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/N1l

You can just query on this key: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dconstruct...

motyar on Oct 7, 2019 | [–]

Good idea.

But I found that anyone can upload any type of file, I just tried https://builtsoon.com/storage/25/alert.html

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