The first release of the New Zealand Common Alerting Protocol Guidelines has been released: This is great news for New Zealand as it provides the first geospatial intelligence for notification of forecast and current hazards. It is used by other counties and we can learn from their approach.
Key Message: If you work in the geospatial industry, this is going to impact you, so follow closely!
Resources
Public Alert and Warning Training Materials - (from the US National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation) In the United States they use a system called IPAWS and it is based on CAP. The data is provided in the standard XML format via a hub and then made available as
