I'll have to think of a better way to do the #BushfireWarning notices. I'm doing it by hand which is time-consuming, error-prone and relies on me being 100% attentive.
Not a good plan.
I see the Mapnik project (https://mapnik.org/) seems to have some code that can effectively render a KMZ map file as an image.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/3979536
The QFES CAP-AU feed (https://publiccontent-gis-psba-qld-gov-au.s3.amazonaws.com/content/Feeds/BushfireCurrentIncidents/bushfireAlert_capau.xml) has everything I need to actually render that… I just need a pin in the actual spot and a polygon around the perimeter.
Shouldn't be difficult to put that into a small graphic, use the text from the XML to make a number of bots (Queensland is huge, I'm thinking one per "region"; so Far North, North West, Central, Central Coast, South West, Southern, South East), linking back to the QFES site for official updates.
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