Last year, during the bush fires here in Victoria, I spent a bit of time watching the CFA web site for updates. My wife made the comment that it would be realy nice if you could see where the fires were (at the time, there was no map on the site).

It seemed an easy enough job, so I started working on parsing the CFA RSS feed and then linking to Google maps to show where the fires are.

But the fires were over before I finished the job, and since then it’s languished in my pile of projects that would be nice to finish if I had the time. And now it’s fire season again and I was thinking I really do need to get that site done soon.

I just had a look at the CFA site to see if anything had changed, and now they have maps. Guess I was too slow

Time to archive the code and move on to the next little project.