Geospeed

An app for getting the current speed limit, wherever you are.

geospeed.co

Overview

This is a Ruby on Rails (4.2) application with two main components:

1. The front-end React application. Pretty much all of that code lives in app/assets/javascripts/components. The front end app served is a basic static site with no dynamic data.

2. A server-side API for getting speed limit data. This is a simple wrapper around the Overpass API. Most of this code lives in app/models/overpass.rb.

Features

• Shows the road where the currently displayed speed limit is relevant to. This is useful when geolocation information is slightly inaccurate.
• Show current speed and speed limit.
• "HUD Mode" where text is mirrored, so you can reflect the screen off of your windshield and use the app as a HUD.
• A color picker to change the color scheme.

Contributing

This is a relatively straightforward Rails application to install and hack on:

git clone https://github.com/hstove/geospeed.git
cd geospeed
bundle install -j4
bundle exec bin/rake db:setup
bundle exec guard

Running guard will startup the server and setup LiveReload and guard-rspec.

Self-Host

You can self host this app with the click of a button:

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