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Jim Welch

Jim Welch

I build routing, mapping and AI tools: route optimizers, fleet dashboards, navigation apps, and the occasional fantasy football bot. Here's what I've been working on.

Work

Routing & logistics

Tools for planning routes, fleets and schedules. Most are built on NextBillion.ai's routing and maps APIs.

Route Planner White Label

A white-label route planner: drag in jobs, shipments and vehicles (CSV or Excel), optimize, and review routes on the map.

TypeScriptNext.jsRoute optimization

FuelRoute Express

An API that picks the cheapest fuel stops along a long-haul trucking route, from origin, destination and vehicle specs.

JavaScriptAPISpatial queries

MTLL Slot Engine

Finds open time slots in a surveyor's day, checks drive-time between jobs, and ranks the slots to offer a customer. Replaced an Excel workflow.

TypeScriptNext.jsScheduling

Route Optimization Iterative Refiner

Upload a route-optimization input and solution, tune the parameters, and refine the plan run by run.

JavaScriptNext.jsOptimization

FieldOps Route Optimizer

An end-to-end field-service demo: generated jobs in major cities, optimized technician routes, and re-optimization when new requests arrive.

JavaScriptField service

Traffic Incidents Viewer

Live traffic incidents on a map, colour-coded by type, with filters.

JavaScriptMaps SDK

Terraform: living map scenes

Turns map camera positions into AI-styled “living scenes” you can fly between or orbit in 360°.

JavaScriptMapLibreImage AI

Play

Just for fun

Side projects for family, friends and fans.

Family Bowl

Super Bowl prop bets for family and friends: everyone submits picks, picks are revealed once they lock, and scores update as results come in.

JavaScriptNext.jsLive

Pebble Navigation

A Pebble watchapp showing live travel time and distance from where you are to a saved destination, refreshed every minute.

CPebble

Developers

SDKs & examples

Sample code for developers getting started with NextBillion.ai.

NextBillion.ai API Examples

Runnable examples across NextBillion.ai's APIs, with CI and security scans.

JavaScriptExamples

NavApp

Turn-by-turn navigation with the NextBillion.ai Navigation SDK on iOS and Android, in a React Native app.

SwiftReact Native

Ionic + NB.ai maps

A sample of NextBillion.ai maps in the Ionic framework.

IonicMaps