FastOpenDataFastOpenData is a solo project. There's no company, no funding round, no team behind it — just one person building an ETL pipeline and API for public U.S. address, geographic, and demographic data, in the open, incrementally.
The idea is straightforward: public data — Census, TIGER, OpenStreetMap, and more — is scattered across CSVs, shapefiles, and government FTP servers, and every project that wants it ends up rebuilding the same address-to-tract joins from scratch. The goal here is to build that join once, properly, and expose it as a single clean API.
Today, that goal is partly built: the geocoding endpoint works, and the ETL pipelines that ingest Census, TIGER, and OpenStreetMap data already exist in the codebase for a separate graph-processing project. Wiring that enrichment into this API is the next phase of work, not a finished feature.
This site will get more honest, not less, as the project matures — pages will move from "planned" to "live" as the work actually lands.