Show HN: I like knowing what's being built nearby, so I made a crowd-sourced map (builtsoon.com)

7 points by aschmelyun 6y ago ↗ HN

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motyar 6y ago ↗

Good idea.

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

jakecopp 6y ago ↗

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...