Toronto Fires

Here’s a little mashup I’ve been putting together for the last few days: Toronto Fires.

It’s taking the data listed here on the City of Toronto’s Fire Services “Active Accidents”, scraping it (by pretending HTML is XHTML and treating it as WORK objects), geocoding it (using our WORK Google API) and mapping it (using this information).

This is very much a work in progress, but here’s a few more things that are involved:

• we read body.table.tr.td[1].table.tr[1].td.table.tr as a list to get the rows in the table
• we map those rows into the Geocoder use a new magic technology we’ll be explaining in the next few days: Djolt – Django-like templates
• the output program is just one big Djolt template

I’m not quite satisfied with how the current page is constructed: I want the final result to be much more simple.