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tl;dr - I made the data that powers Pike open to everyone at OpenInterstate. Go watch the website drive down I-10 near where I live. I released Pike - Next Exit Guide several months ago, prior to my 38-day roadtrip, in order to simplify how my wife and I would locate useful exits while on the road. I'm biased, but we genuinely found it useful, especially for finding rest stops. When the dust settled after releasing the app, I realized that a tremendous amount of my effort was related to learning about and wrestling with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. Learning about SuperRelations, subsequently learning how fragmented they are, and uncovering accurate drive times through open-source tools like OSRM are just a few examples. Even with the help of advanced AI models like Opus 4.x (no Fable at the time), this took me hours and hours of exploration. Well. I've said "screw it!" - I want to make this data available to everyone because it just seems like something that should exist already. I know…

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