Comments on: CAP or how to send really small emergency messaging http://readyqueen.com/2007/10/cap-or-how-to-send-really-small-emergency-messaging/ Modern disaster survival and preparedness for your family and business Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:05:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Coursey http://readyqueen.com/2007/10/cap-or-how-to-send-really-small-emergency-messaging/comment-page-1/#comment-37 David Coursey Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:38:35 +0000 http://www.readyqueen.com/blog/2007/10/16/cap-or-how-to-send-really-small-emergency-messaging/#comment-37 CAP and EDXL, for whatever it's used for, should be transparent to the first responder, second responder, all responders. What CAP does, by providing interoperability between various warning systems/tools, promises to make a single warning do what today requires many separate warnings. It also allows very precise geographic warnings to be issued, something that today is only barely possible. I have done CAP work for a very large software company and am a consultant at a vendor of CAP-based warning systems. I wouldn't be doing this if CAP wasn't very important, but once a CAP system is installed, the users shouldn't have to know what the magic is, just that it works. So, if you install a CAP system, you will be using it all the time. That is, provided you actually issue warnings. That's a whole 'nother subject. You can see the State of Calif CAP feed at edis.oes.ca.gov/atom.index (or is it index.atom?). My company built that system and a number of others. The NWS is working to issue all its products as CAP messages. To learn about CAP: www.capcookbook.com My EAS blog: www.easupdate.com David david@coursey.com CAP and EDXL, for whatever it’s used for, should be transparent to the first responder, second responder, all responders. What CAP does, by providing interoperability between various warning systems/tools, promises to make a single warning do what today requires many separate warnings. It also allows very precise geographic warnings to be issued, something that today is only barely possible.

I have done CAP work for a very large software company and am a consultant at a vendor of CAP-based warning systems. I wouldn’t be doing this if CAP wasn’t very important, but once a CAP system is installed, the users shouldn’t have to know what the magic is, just that it works.

So, if you install a CAP system, you will be using it all the time. That is, provided you actually issue warnings. That’s a whole ‘nother subject.

You can see the State of Calif CAP feed at edis.oes.ca.gov/atom.index (or is it index.atom?). My company built that system and a number of others. The NWS is working to issue all its products as CAP messages.

To learn about CAP: http://www.capcookbook.com
My EAS blog: http://www.easupdate.com

David
david@coursey.com

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