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A POI database in one line

This week, the Overture Maps Foundation released a handy command-line tool for downloading a subset of the Overture dataset. Usage is simple:

This command downloads a GeoJSON file containing all the Overture buildings in a chunk of Boston. Thankfully, LLMs are spookily good at producing bounding boxes for towns, cities, states, and regions. So lets incorporate Simon’s llm tool to generate our bounding box (here, with OpenAI’s gpt-3.5), using command substitution:

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