bad-directions

A silly web app that can give you a step-by-step route from a point of origin to your destination in text form, but also gives you the option to translate to one of ~20 different languages an unlimited number of times to help obscure your route or even challenge your sense of direction!

Inspired by a bit from a comedy show: got home and had a working prototype the day after. It relies entirely on OSRM for pathfinding, OpenStreetMap (specifically Nominatim) for geocoding, and LibreTranslate for translation (~~specifically this mirror for graciously allowing CORS requests for free 🖤~~, as of 1st of April 2024: no free and open mirrors remain so my home server will need to suffice, though it’s extremely slow).