PlanningAlerts.org.au is run by a charity, the OpenAustralia Foundation, and relies on the support of volunteers. If you would like to get involved we'd love to hear from you:
I am a programmer and want to add my local planning authority
You can help by writing a screen scraper for your local planning authority that we can import into planningalerts.org.au. There are only 2 criteria for the screen scraper:
- That it can output data in the following format: brisbane.xml
- That it can accept a query string in the format day=X&month=Y&year=Z
Other than that it's up to you. It can be in any language. You can host them yourself or we can host it for you.
Please go ahead and grab the code for this site, the scrapers, view some development tickets and join the OpenAustralia Community mailing list.
I work for a local council or planning authority and would like to make our data available
The most important thing you can do is publish your data in a simple format that is freely available on the internet. Something like this is good but we can work with most formats. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss how you can help.