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Heya, congrats on getting on the HN front page! I'm Bence, one of the judges from hack.travel, where I believe this project originated. (Note for bystanders: the project got first place at that hackathon.)

I wonder what's been up with the project and why the sudden activity? Have you been doing anything cool behind the scenes?

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lol no and thanks! I recently posted an email validator I built about a year ago with not much thought https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440220 Today, I noticed my github stars went through the roof on that repo so I thought I should probably post some of my other repos too!

Kudos - well done :)

If you still like the topic of path finding you can checkout GraphHopper - we always look for contributors :)

GraphHopper is great, especially for Map Matching. The IoT startup I work for in New Zealand was struggling with fuzzy-matching routes with Google Maps and ESRI. When I tried GraphHopper, it gave excellent results, and when I had more questions, email replies were extremely punctual. Another friend in Germany is using GraphHopper for some research on tram lines.

So just to echo what karussell says: GraphHopper seem like a great team, with wonderful tech and friendly people. So if you have an interest in maps, it's worth chatting to them!

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