The Thing System and Planning Alerts

• The Thing System is close to supporting my air conditioner
• Planning Alerts has fixed scrapers for a few more councils
• There is no third thing yet, and I'm all out of weekend :S

Note to self: get the Planning Alerts API and OSM, and mix them together

Licencing is probably not a good match between planning alerts and OSM; but I should probably render planning applications as a feed on open street map.

http://www.planningalerts.org.au/api/howto points to this example, but it shouldn't be too hard to apply to an OpenStreetMap slippy map.

The more interesting thing will be

• Flagging buildings as under construction automagically in OpenStreetMap, or adding a bug report
• API that mashes up the two data sets