1. Magnus Runesson SMHI, Sweden Magnus.Runesson@smhi.se
Web based alert system
Magnus Runesson
SMHI, Sweden

2. Background All alert systems were different
Some were not easy to maintain
Forecaster had to sit at a specific computer
The systems were not exact enough
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3. Goals Consolidate our alert system Web based client for the forecaster
Make it easy to create new type of alerts
Easy to edit customer and their subscription
Alerts nor subscriptions should be bound to predefined areas
Web 2.0
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4. Solution
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5. The forecaster’s client
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6. Experiences CAP can contain all situations we tested
Some parts of CAP is not good XML makes it hard to parse, ie addresses tag
Language-tag is ambiguous, same language can be coded in different ways
Common Meteorological coding of parameters and event code needed (Idea create a meteorological profile)
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7. Links to things we have used
Openlayers -
Postgresql -
Postgis -
Geoserver -
QGIS -
PGadmin -
Hibernate Spatial -
OGC -
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) -
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