Data sources and licenses

Last updated: November 2, 2026

Fort Route is built on open data and public sources. This page lists each source, what it supplies in the app, and the license it's published under.

Data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Map and places

Fort Route's 53,582 places include truck stops, truck parking, rest areas, weigh stations, CAT scales, truck services, truck washes, dealers, Walmarts and hotels. They're combined from the sources below, with duplicates removed.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap supplies truck stops, rest areas, parking, weigh stations, truck dealers and truck tire shops, along with weigh-station hours where mappers have recorded them. It's published under the Open Database License (ODbL). Attribution: Data © OpenStreetMap contributors. See openstreetmap.org/copyright.

Overture Maps Foundation

Overture Maps places data, made of business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others, supplies truck repair shops, truck tire shops, truck washes, truck and semi-trailer dealers, independent truck stops, truck lots, and hotels and motels within about half a mile (800 m) of an interstate exit. We keep only listings for big-truck businesses that meet a confidence threshold. Hotels show truck parking as unconfirmed until a driver confirms it. Overture places data is published under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive 2.0 (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).

All the Places

All the Places collects location data each week from brands' published store locators. It supplies locations for truck-stop chains, scale and truck-wash networks, retailers and truck service shops, plus truck-diesel lanes at fuel brands (only locations whose locator lists truck diesel). Where a brand publishes amenity details such as showers or DEF, they come from that listing. All the Places data is released under CC0 1.0, a public domain dedication. Brand names are used only to identify locations and don't mean the brand endorses Fort Route.

USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas Database

Truck spot counts at rest areas come from the truck parking data in the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD), published by the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics and based on the Jason's Law truck parking survey. It's US government data in the public domain. Spot counts describe how many truck spaces a location has, not how many are open right now.

Natural Earth

Border lines come from Natural Earth, a public domain map dataset.

Driver reports

Drivers can report parking (plenty, some or full) and scale status (open or closed), and enter weigh-station hours. During the beta, reports stay on the phone that made them.

What we don't use

We don't use other apps' place databases or business listings whose terms forbid copying and storing their data.

Routing

• Routes are calculated by Valhalla, an open-source routing engine (MIT license), running on Fort Route's own server in the United States.
• The road network, truck restrictions and speed limits come from OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Truck-restriction coverage in OpenStreetMap varies by area.
• Speed limits combine OpenStreetMap speed-limit tags, including truck-specific limits, with statewide truck limits set by law. They cover about 95% of tested routes. Where the limit isn't known, the app shows no sign rather than a guess.
• Elevation data on the routing server supplies the elevation along your route.

Road work

Live work zones come from Work Zone Data Exchange (WZDx) feeds published by state and local transportation agencies. Fort Route uses 17 feeds.

State feeds:

• Indiana
• Washington
• Delaware
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• North Dakota
• New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine (one shared feed)
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• Minnesota
• New Jersey
• Idaho
• Hawaii

City and county feeds:

• Austin, Texas
• St. Charles County, Missouri
• Maricopa County, Arizona

Each agency publishes its feed as public data under its own terms. Road work outside these feeds isn't covered, and the app names the states on your route that have no feed. Feeds are reported by the agencies and may not match conditions on the road.

Cameras

Live DOT cameras

Fort Route shows 12,999 live traffic cameras run by state transportation agencies:

• Caltrans (California)
• Oregon DOT TripCheck
• Washington State DOT
• Iowa DOT
• Illinois DOT and Travel Midwest
• Minnesota DOT
• North Dakota DOT
• South Dakota DOT

Camera images load directly from each agency's own server and belong to that agency. The app hides them while the truck is moving.

Speed and red-light cameras

The app's 1,882 speed and red-light camera alerts come from OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Coverage is uneven from place to place, so no alert doesn't mean no camera.

Weather

Weather alerts along your route come from the US National Weather Service. NWS information is a US government work in the public domain.

Diesel prices

Fuel planning uses the US Energy Information Administration weekly on-highway diesel price averages by region, which are US government data in the public domain, plus diesel prices reported by drivers. Regional averages are not live prices at a specific station.

Address search

Address and place search uses Photon, an open-source geocoder run by komoot and built on OpenStreetMap data (ODbL).

Map tiles

The map is drawn with tiles from OpenFreeMap, built from OpenStreetMap data. Attribution: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

How places are checked

In November 2026, we checked every place against current sources:

• The chains' current location lists
• Business listings with open and closed signals
• Closure notices

Places that had closed were removed, rebranded locations were renamed, and places with doubtful signals were flagged. After the check, 53,582 places were kept. Each place shows a "Checked" line on its place sheet.

Amenities show where each fact came from. "Yes" means the location's own data lists it. "Usually" means it's that brand's standard offer, and the app never shows it as confirmed. "You confirmed" means a driver reported it.

How to report an error

If a place, restriction or other detail is wrong, email [email protected]. It helps to include:

• The place name and where it is (address, highway and exit, or coordinates)
• What's wrong and what you saw
• When you were there

Many places and road details come from OpenStreetMap, which anyone can edit at openstreetmap.org. A fix there also helps every other map that uses OpenStreetMap data, and it reaches Fort Route the next time we update place data.