This was supposed to be a What’s coming up for April Post but April happened so let’s cover what’s been going on behind the scenes:
- The Station feedback form mentioned last month is live (Suggest an edit), you can find this on the Station template; expect one for the Suburb, City, State and Brand templates shortly
- Ongoing efforts to speed up page loading times as we accomodate increased site demand
- Ongoing efforts to improve the automated detection and exclusion of broken/corrupt Stations from influencing the City, Suburb and Station templates
- Ongoing efforts to improve the FuelPrice Australia Android App and Android mobile experience; Apple and iOS users you’re up next!
- Adsense ads were enabled on to ensure the site is cost-neutral; it will de-activate when site costs for the current month are met
The stragglers from past months will carry over to this month.
New features
- [..] Add price heat mapping to the Brand template
- [ ] Set the daily average price for towns/cities independantly where local station data is available (e.g. WA, NT, NSW, QLD)
- [ ] Show the average daily fuel price on the Fuel brand template
- [ ] Finish the Small Detailed Embed and Map Embed Widgets
- [ ] Add Suburb support to all Widgets
- [..] Add reporting feature to City and Station templates to raise data issues
- [ ] Overlay the current average daily price with current per-station prices to see what stations have priced their fuel types above/below regional averages
- [ ] Add forecasting of tomorrow price and two days from now prices for cities based on known high and low historical prices
- [x] Add fuzzy matching for mispelled Suburbs and towns/cities in search
- [ ] History controls for fuel stations to see last week, last month and all time matching the history controls of fuel types
- [ ] AMP site support with Google Maps and Charts functionality
- [..] Build out an API for localised fuel price data
- [x] Put the website through AppPresser and release to the Google Play and App Store marketplaces
- [..] Add My Account facilities to manage your vehicle preferences, preferred fuel type and favourite stations and/or regions
- [..] Add site facilites to fuel stations from official sources (e.g. AdBlue availability, etc.)
- [ ] Add fuel excerpt for Diesel and Premium Diesel fuel types using long-term pricing data (Diesel and Premium Diesel do not have typical weekly/monthly cycles)
Fixes
- [..] Validate Suburb Lat/Long positions against a new dataset with better accuracy
- [ ] Identify and redirect duplicate fuel stations in NSW at the same location to the original station that is being maintained
- [..] Identify non-crowdfunded data sources for fuel stations in Tasmania, South Australia and the ACT
- [ ] Improve the fuel price trigger detection linked to the low pricing e-mail notification
- [..] Populate Google Maps Place ID for thousands of suburbs
- [..] Populate Google Maps Place ID for thousands of outstanding stations
- [ ] Validate Station price details by comparing against multiple data sources where possible
- [ ] Re-introduce road safety messages with new Ad platform showing relevant messages based on known location
Changes
- [ ] Switch to Mapbox if daily Google Maps API spending goes through the roof
Please keep hitting the feedback buttons and leave a comment where you identify problems with pages, feedback is taken seriously and is often actioned on the spot. 🙂