Generate sitemap

[LukePrior]

Useful for Google as it won't index all the different suburbs otherwise.

Can initially be done manually as suburbs won't change often, in future create production ready code and a GitHub Action.

[LukePrior]

Created: https://lukeprior.github.io/nbn-upgrade-map/sitemap.xml

Very quick and dirty clone to generate a file which I ran through a formatter:

suburbs_res = suburbs.read_all_suburbs()
urls = []
for state, suburb_list in suburbs_res.items():
    for suburb in suburb_list:
        process_name = suburb.name.replace(" ", "-")
        process_name = process_name.lower()
        urls.append(f"https://lukeprior.github.io/nbn-upgrade-map/?suburb={process_name}&state={state}")
start = """
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
"""
for url in urls:
    start += f"<url><loc>{url}</loc></url>"
start += "</urlset>"

start = start.replace("&", "&amp;")

file = open("site/sitemap.xml", "w")
file.write(start)
file.close()

If I get around to productionising it will take the opportunity to add lastmod value and update it when underlying data has a change.

[LukePrior]

Not sure if google will actually index the pages but it now knows they exist

[LukePrior]

Looks like Google has indexed all the pages, will see if search traffic changes.

[LukePrior]

It has gotten about 2/3