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Find stations
Pull every fuel station around your location from OpenStreetMap. No proprietary feed, no rate limit, no API key for the user.
Crisis instrument · fuel shortages · queue-aware routing
The fastest fuel station, not the nearest one.
The nearest station is almost never the fastest once you count the queue. FuelQ reads live traffic and routing to rank the station that gets you fueled soonest. When the nearest station is not the fastest, you see exactly how many minutes the better pick saves you. When the nearest one already is the fastest, FuelQ tells you that too. Built during Sri Lanka's 2022 fuel crisis. Works anywhere with road traffic data. Free, no account.
- 2022built during the Sri Lanka fuel crisis
- ~3hto deploy in a new region
- ∞stations indexed · OpenStreetMap
How FuelQ works
Four moves between a shortage and a tank.
The closest station is almost never the right one in a shortage. FuelQ reads queue depth from live traffic patterns, computes the total time-cost to each station including the wait, and ranks the top three by arrival-plus-queue time. The map UI is optional. The ranked list is the product.
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Read live traffic
Sample the traffic delay index around each station. Idle stretches mean short queues. Sustained congestion at a forecourt means a long one.
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Compute time-cost
Routing API gives drive time. Queue inference gives wait time. We add them. Distance is no longer the unit; minutes are.
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Rank and open
Top three appear with ETA. One tap opens turn-by-turn in your default maps app. No account, no friction, no fuel wasted circling.
Where it works
Built for a crisis. Useful in any tight market.
2022
First built and shipped during the Sri Lanka fuel crisis. The math is the same anywhere a queue at the forecourt costs more than the drive to it.
~3h
From cold start to live in a new region. The only inputs are an OpenStreetMap bounding box and a routing API key. No regional config.
∞
Stations indexed worldwide via OpenStreetMap. Every fuel forecourt with a tag is in scope. Coverage scales with the map, not with us.
Logistics teams
Build-out reference for fleet ops.
The same engine adapts to a private fleet. Trade the public OpenStreetMap layer for your branded forecourt list, add a vehicle-level priority weight, and the ranking becomes a per-truck dispatch instruction. Two to three weeks depending on routing rail.
FuelQ public
The live instrument anyone can open right now. OSM stations, live traffic, routing API, ranked top three. Free, no account, mobile first. Used as the build-out reference for private fleet variants.
Private fleet variant
Private station list, vehicle-level priority weights, per-truck dispatch output, ops dashboard. Same routing engine, swapped data layer. Ships in two to three weeks depending on the routing rail you already pay for.
Pricing
Free to open. Pro for the drivers who burn fuel finding fuel.
Open FuelQ
No account, no install, no upsell. Open it now or save it for the day a shortage hits. Works offline-friendly as an installable PWA. The ranked list is the product, the map is optional.
FuelQ Pro
Unlimited queries, priority routing across multiple stations at once, offline saved routes for shortage windows. For ride share, delivery and fleet drivers who lose half an hour a day to the wrong queue.
Build for our region
FuelQ works anywhere OpenStreetMap has fuel tags and your routing provider covers traffic. If you want a tuned, branded, or fleet-ready deployment in a specific market, the path is direct contact.
FuelQ infers queue depth from live traffic patterns and system estimates. It is a planning aid, not a guarantee. Conditions change between query and arrival. Always confirm at the forecourt and follow local guidance.