OpenInterstate - Canonicalized U.S. Interstate Highway Data
tl;dr - I made the data that powers Pike, an app the tells you what restaurants and gas stations are coming up at the next exit, available to everyone via OpenInterstate. Go watch the website drive down I-10 near where I live.
I released Pike 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.
Eventually I realized it would be a shame if this data was locked behind my silly, vibe-coded app. It's useful data and it should be available to everyone; I was genuinely surprised when Pike became a herculean OSM data effort. So, world, I giveth you beautifully constructed and simple interstate data.
Please go check out OpenInterstate, and if you want to contribute, you can take a look at the data pipelines yourself over at tldev/openinterstate and tldev/openinterstate-reachability.
This data is so powerful that I'm confident anyone could create a Pike clone in a matter of hours using a model like Fable by just pointing it at the dataset and saying "go". Hey, maybe I'll have inspired someone to go make a web version.
Cheers, everyone.