Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America

Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by caroyannis on Sunday July 06, 2014 @02:55PM (#7995300)

This is a small project I'd started a couple months ago to help myself find and report bed bugs when apartment hunting. All of the other websites that are similar to this are either broken (don't allow you to submit new reports), or are confusing to navigate.

I'm starting with 17 cities in North America.

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Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by fourstar on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:11PM (#7995526)

http://bedbugregistry.com is pretty easy to navigate and it's been around for almost 10 years. In fact, it looks like you're pulling the same data from there as well. Is that legal?

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Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by caroyannis on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:38PM (#7995629)

For a lot of cities, that website is actually quite broken: you can't submit new addresses or reports.

In Vancouver, BC (where I'm from) you haven't been able to submit new reports for 2+ years unless you're using their iOS app. A majority of the website is outdated and I wanted to make a resource to fix that problem.

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Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by tptacek on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:45PM (#7995649)

I'm not sure that makes it OK to scrape and re-host their data.

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Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by exhilaration on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:33PM (#7995605)

I came here to say the same thing - I've been checking the above site for years before booking any hotel.

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