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Web based alert system. Magnus Runesson SMHI, Sweden Magnus.Runesson@smhi.se. 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. Goals. Consolidate our alert system
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Web based alert system Magnus Runesson SMHI, Sweden Magnus.Runesson@smhi.se
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 Signatur
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 Signatur
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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) Signatur
Links to things we have used • Openlayers - http://www.openlayers.org/ • Postgresql - http://www.postgresql.org/ • Postgis - http://postgis.refractions.net/ • Geoserver - http://geoserver.org/ • QGIS - http://www.qgis.org/ • PGadmin - http://www.pgadmin.org/ • Hibernate Spatial - http://www.hibernatespatial.org/ • OGC - http://www.opengeospatial.org/ • Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) - http://www.incident.com/cap/ Signatur