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A Closer Look
Read More about the wonderful and weird intersections we've found!
Baseball Drive and Golf Drive
Baseball and golf: Two sports that can be played perfectly well with a gut...
Basketball Road and Wardell Road
If you’re a basketball fan, you know who Steph Curry is...
Post Boy Road and Post Boy Dr. SW
The first-known white explorer of these parts was Christopher Gist of the Ohio Land Company in 1750...
Technology Notes
Our blog about the technical hurdles of building Crossing.us.
One App, Zero Web Servers: Developing Crossing.us on Amazon Lambda
Devops is no fun at all. What is fun (for us, at least) was building the system Crossing.us uses to find funny intersections like Drunk Rd with and Lonesome Rd in Montana...
The Magic of On-demand Gif Generation
One of Crossing's unique features is our automatic, on-demand gif generation for each intersection...
How To Improve Amazon Lambda Python Cold-Start Times
Amazon Lambda is a powerful tool for running your code without having to worry about traditional devops or paying for expensive servers when load is low -- but it adds its own nontraditional quirks...
Make Census Data Better!
Our intersection data relies heavily on street info collecting by the US Census. They do a great job, but given the literally millions of streets in the US, some mistakes slip through the cracks. The good news is that we have partnered with the census to help make their data better! If you spot an error, report it to us using the form below, and we'll pass it on to the census to make sure they have the most accurate data!
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