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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.
A routing instrument for fuel shortages
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, adds the wait to the drive, and ranks the station that fills your tank soonest. When a farther station wins, you see exactly how many minutes it saves. When the nearest one already wins, 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 via OpenStreetMap
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15min
saved by the station the vector points to, not the one the map calls closest.
queue heat
light to critical
The idea
Nearest ≠ fastest.
Distance is cheap. In a shortage the drive is a few minutes either way. The cost is the queue, and the queue does not show on a map. FuelQ measures both and adds them, so the verdict is the total time to a full tank rather than the line on the screen. Position is data. The vector is the verdict.
6min drive
Drive time is the small number.
The routing API gives an honest drive estimate to every forecourt nearby. Across a city these rarely differ by more than a handful of minutes.
20min queue
Queue time is the large one.
A busy forecourt can cost far more in the line than any rival costs in the drive. FuelQ infers queue depth from the live traffic pattern around each station.
26min total
FuelQ ranks on the sum.
Drive plus queue is the only number that matters when the tank is low. The station with the smallest total wins, even when it sits farther away.
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, computes the total time cost to each station including the wait, and ranks the top three by arrival plus queue time. The map 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 gives drive time. Queue inference gives wait time. FuelQ adds them. Distance stops being the unit; minutes become the unit.
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Rank and open
The top three appear with an 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.
Who it's for
For the drivers who burn fuel finding fuel.
FuelQ is free to open for anyone. It is for people whose day is measured in queues, where half an hour lost at the wrong forecourt is half an hour off the clock. The figures below are the cost of the problem, not a promise. What FuelQ removes is the guesswork.
~30min a day
Rideshare drivers
Every minute in a queue is a minute off the meter. Refuel on the shortest total time and keep the car earning instead of idling.
~30min a day
Delivery riders
Tight drop windows leave no room to circle. Pick the station that gets you back on the route soonest, queue included.
pervehicle
Fleet and dispatch
One wrong forecourt call multiplies across a fleet. Rank on total time so every vehicle refuels on the fastest available option.
day 1of a shortage
Anyone in a crisis
When supply tightens, the nearest pump is the busiest pump. FuelQ points at the one that is moving. This is the case it was built for.
Logistics teams
Build 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 the routing rail.
FuelQ public
The live instrument anyone can open right now. OpenStreetMap stations, live traffic, routing, ranked top three. Free, no account, built for the phone. It is also the working 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.
Access
Free to open. No account. No upsell.
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Open FuelQ
No account, no install, no upsell. Open it now or save it for the day a shortage hits. Installs as a PWA and stays friendly offline. The ranked list is the product; the map is optional.
Talk
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. The station names, distances and minutes shown on this page are an illustrative example.
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