Hi, great write up and very cool project! I was wondering how you arrived at the idea to use OSRM and pre-computing the drive time from every exit to every POI. Was that something you learned existed along the way? Did Claude/codex point the way to this?
Hello, I appreciate the kind words. When I realized that radial search just wasn't going to be accurate (and potentially harmful given people might exit onto another interstate thinking they could grab some Wendy's), I posited to Claude: "I need to understand reachability of a POI from an exit, reachability being defined as driving time less than X amount of time". Claude then suggested two open-source projects: Valhalla & OSRM. I haven't done much research on Valhalla - Claude ultimately recommended OSRM for its "simplicity" but again, I don't honestly know if that's true. Claude can definitely be credited with my decision to choose OSRM.
Hi jmx, I hadn't considered that scenario. I'd be happy to as long as Apple doesn't have me jump through too many hoops. I don't mind a few hoops though.
No Android app - however, using the current app as the spec, it would be interesting and fun to take on creating the Android version. I really don't believe it would be that hard. Stay tuned.
However, we're on 290 E and it's showing me the exits that are behind us – as if it thinks we're westbound. Is there any way to convince it we're not?