When South Australia’s Country ire Service started to provide an RSS feed of incidents last week, I (along with many other SA geeks) immediately thought:

So, slightly hungover after a great New Year’s Eve celebration, I fired up Yahoo Pipes and set to.

It was a pretty straightforward task - strip the suburb name out of the feed title, append "South Australia" to help the location builder module and grab the output as KML. You can see the pipe here so feel free to make a copy and mess around with it.

Here is the finished map (RSS readers will need to click through to the story to view it)

When government agencies open up their data like this, cool things happen. Hope you like it.