Weekend mapping experiments, misc small but fulfilling development

This week I was working from home quite a lot, and given the holiday period, managed to get into the zone a fair bit.

It seems like this has continued into the open source work I'm doing. Most of the actual work is small at the end of the day, but has a larger impact.

So far; I've:

• Rewritten a few parsers for planning alerts, now that scraperwiki isn't working.
• Pondered sending in a pull request or two so that we can add Google Enhanced Search Results to OSM nodes via Schema.org/linkeddata.
• Effectively finished(!) an import of suburb boundaries in SA, so that the Adelaide Metro journey planner is more useful.
• Started a writeup of importing Geelong buildings, which are interestingly all mapped by the council with a LIDAR equipped plane.
• Done a proof of concept "detect a planning alert and trigger a note on OSM" script, which will evolve.
• Discover vespucci actually supports bing background imagery, allowing a bunch more approximate building traces to take place.
• Had most of the mapping between Gawler and Tanunda start to render (map below)
• Ordered some Sugru, to make custom fit headphones.

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