I'm also interested in your second bullet. The likelihood that you're passing by a cool outdoor event while blazing down the interstate is a lot higher than if you're staying in town. The data would be very difficult to source.
Thanks for the ideas though. Give Pike a try and let me know what you think.
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.
Very nice app, btw. Thank for you creating and sharing it. We have the same issue with our family, we want to stop but don't know what's coming and if we should wait for something better or not. So the non-driving person is in charge of scouting ahead on their phone on the map for restaurants and gas stations.
I think with the left vs right, it might be just a regional / cultural thing. Left exits are frowned up or just not allowed and many places (and for good reason) so people may not be familiar with them.
Hi all - just sharing my latest invention that was recently released to the iOS app store. If you'll be on the road any time soon, please give the app a try!
Posturr is a macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. I’ve always had bad posture at my desk, so I wanted to figure out a way to check myself. This idea is not radically new, but the methods by which Posturr reminds, e.g. blurring screen, colored border, is unique and effective.
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