Save a Few Bucks on Petrol

You might already know that FuelWatch (the WA Department of Consumer and Employment Protection no less) publishes petrol prices for every petrol station in WA every day. If you *do* know this, you've probably noticed

• How crap their website is (particularly the 'map'), and
• How useless the paper and TV news bulletin FuelWatch alerts are (cheapest northern suburbs price? I care about this why? I'm driving in to Hay Street or up to Currumbine to save a couple cents a litre? Ah, no.).

The data's good, it just needs to be displayed in a more useful way. Ergo, for all your thrifty petrol buying needs:

The WA Petrol Price Mapplet (for Google Maps)
(Here's a post on how to set up and use the mapplet)

and

The WA Petrol Price Mashup

Find the cheapest petrol in the suburbs you normally fill up in. 'Cause nothing's more annoying than paying 133 a litre when the servo up the street is selling it for 119.

*If you're interested in the technology, check out these posts on the making of the Mapplet and the Mashup.