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Version: Beta 7 (latest)

Features

Find

  • Postcode or GPS search with adjustable radius (0.5 mi → 60 mi, fine at the low end)
  • 30+ amenity categories across 8 groups: Essentials, Fuel & Charging, Food & Drink, Health, Vehicle Services, Parking, Overnight Parking, Leisure
  • Filter results by category and by data source, with auto-refresh on every toggle
  • Nearest-first ranking across every source

Categories and what each shows

  • Essentials: toilets, launderettes, post offices, Amazon lockers, ATMs, pharmacies, drinking-water refills
  • Fuel & Charging: petrol/diesel stations with live prices, LPG/Autogas, EV charging with connector types
  • Food & Drink: supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, pubs — with FSA hygiene ratings
  • Health: hospitals, dentists, vets
  • Vehicle Services: MOT stations, mechanics, tyre shops
  • Parking: car parks, Park & Ride, motorhome aires, laybys — with fee, max stay, capacity, and vehicle-size limits where OSM has them
  • Leisure: campsites, gyms, swimming pools, parks, libraries, designated bathing waters with EA water quality

Data sources integrated

  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass) — primary across every category
  • Google Places (Radar Pro tier, gap-fill)
  • UK Gov Fuel Finder (mandatory reporting, 30-min price updates)
  • GB Toilet Map (15,800+ toilets, accessibility info)
  • Open Charge Map (EV network)
  • Revolution / Wash.ME (~1,264 self-service launderettes)
  • FillLPG.co.uk (~1,800 LPG stations, phone numbers extracted)
  • FSA Food Hygiene (every registered food business in UK)
  • Open Banking UK ATM APIs (13 banks, ~6,200 ATMs)
  • NHS ODS (pharmacies, dentists, hospitals)
  • DVSA Active MOT Stations (~22,500 centres, classes tested)
  • OS Open Greenspace (~165,000 parks and greenspaces, GB)
  • Library Data / ACE (~3,300 England libraries)
  • EA Bathing Water Quality (~450 English bathing waters)
  • EA Flood Monitoring (live warnings + polygons, 15-min refresh)
  • National Highways Network Model (Strategic Road Network restrictions)
  • Postcodes.io + Nominatim (geocoding)

Vehicle-aware

  • Save your vehicle profile (height, width, length, weight, max gradient, fuel type, average mpg) once, reused everywhere Beta7: Updated
  • Map pins for parking and overnight stops flag whether you fit
  • Live hazard overlay: low bridges, weight/width/length restrictions — from OSM + National Highways
  • Route planner (Valhalla + PostGIS): honours your profile AND detours around Sensa Radar's ingested hazards, not just OSM tags
  • Start, end, and stops can each be set by tapping the map, typing a postcode, or picking a saved place (Home / Work chips) Beta7: Updated
  • Multi-stop routes with up to 8 waypoints. Click any place and "Add as stop" to drop it into the route; the route replans automatically Beta7: New
  • Route view shows the hazards and steep sections it avoided, so you understand the detour Beta7: Updated
  • Elevation and gradient profile with an inline chart (metres climbed / descended / max grade) and the route polyline tinted amber / orange / red on steep sections Beta7: New
  • Max gradient setting: Radar detours around any road edge steeper than your ceiling (default 20 %). "Show steep route anyway" override per trip Beta7: New
  • Services-along-route: see fuel, food, toilets, etc scoped to your planned route
  • Per-station fuel prices painted onto the route map for the fuel type set on your profile; the cheapest fuel station on route is highlighted and clickable Beta7: New

Trip mode (turn-by-turn)

  • Press Start once your route is planned to enter active-trip mode Beta7: New
  • Map auto-follows your GPS position Beta7: New
  • Live "X km · Y min to go" countdown in the card header Beta7: New
  • Next-turn banner updates as you approach each maneuver, for example "In 250 m, turn left onto A24" Beta7: New
  • Optional voice announcements via your phone's speech engine, with a pre-alert at ~250 m and the instruction itself at the turn. Toggle the speaker icon; preference is remembered Beta7: New
  • Automatic re-route if you drift more than 100 m from the planned route for two GPS fixes in a row. Your stops and destination are preserved Beta7: New
  • End button exits back to the static plan view Beta7: New

Live

  • Tracking with three states: Off → Tracking → Following. "Following" auto-recentres the map as you drive; drag the map to drop back to Tracking
  • Heading arrow from compass, GPS course, or motion-derived
  • Upcoming-hazards banner based on your heading
  • EA flood warnings rendered live on the map (amber / red / severe)

Community

  • Submit a place — public /list form, no account needed (email + Cloudflare Turnstile). Designed for QR-code business cards. Context-aware fields per category (Parking/Overnight, Food & Drink, Fuel, etc.)
  • Live duplicate detection: submissions that look like an existing place are filed as an edit suggestion against that place instead
  • Edit existing places — pencil icon on map popups (signed-in users) opens the form pre-filled. Approved edits show on the popup with a community or owner badge per field; previous values appear as struck-through "was X"
  • Owner edits — if your submission email's domain matches the place's website, the form auto-tags it as an owner claim. Admins can approve "as community" or "as owner"
  • Tips — thumbs up/down on any place (signed-in, moderated)
  • Bookmark — save places direct from popups
  • Email notifications — submitters and reviewers get approval/rejection emails via Resend

Saved places

  • Bookmark any map pin, or submit a custom place, and it lands in your personal list
  • Assign a category to each saved place (fuel station, campsite, pub, and so on). /places groups by category with a search box and a category filter so long lists stay navigable Beta7: New
  • Saving from a map popup carries the popup's category through automatically Beta7: New
  • The header "Jump to place" popup is searchable and grouped, with Home and Work pinned at the top Beta7: Updated
  • "My places" map layer: a toggleable fourth layer alongside Places, Hazards, and Floods, rendering your saved places with their category colour and emoji. Home and Work get house / briefcase icons; Uncategorised places get a bookmark glyph Beta7: New
  • Saved-place cap is tier-aware: 100 on Lite, 1000 on Pro Beta7: Updated
  • Addresses are backfilled server-side for sources that don't supply one (e.g. OS Greenspace parks), so your list never shows raw coordinates Beta7: New

Account

  • Optional signup (email + password)
  • Preferences synced server-side as JSONB: category selection, source selection, units (miles/km), vehicle profile, radius, last postcode
  • Bookmarks and contributions are tied to your account
  • Signed-out users still work fully; everything persists in localStorage

Under the hood

  • FastAPI + PostgreSQL/PostGIS + Redis backend
  • Next.js 15 web app
  • Deduplication merges OSM + vendor data by category + proximity so the same launderette / pharmacy doesn't appear twice
  • Overpass queries split into 8-category chunks with a 2-parallel cap to avoid timeouts on wide-radius, multi-category searches (OSM request timeout is 20s)
  • Address backfill: places missing addr:* tags get a postcode from postcodes.io reverse lookup
  • Spam controls: Cloudflare Turnstile on unauthenticated submissions, plus a DB-backed rate limit (default 10 contributions per 10 minutes per user/email)