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  1. OASIS Emergency Management TC
  2. EMERGENCY-35

Area Type Designation

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Status: New
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Component/s: EDXL-CAP
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    • Proposal:
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      Add a "type" attribute to the <area> element that will indicate if this area is the incident area or the targeting area.

      For example, if I have a fire at area designated by polygon P1 but I want to notify people in area polygon P2 about it (and still convey information about the location of the incident), I could do as follows:

      <area type="impact"> <polygon>P1</polygon></area>

      <area type="targeting"> <polygon>P2</polygon></area>

      The processing software will know that it needs to alert people in P2 and convey information that the fire is happening in area P1

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      Add a "type" attribute to the <area> element that will indicate if this area is the incident area or the targeting area. For example, if I have a fire at area designated by polygon P1 but I want to notify people in area polygon P2 about it (and still convey information about the location of the incident), I could do as follows: <area type="impact"> <polygon>P1</polygon></area> <area type="targeting"> <polygon>P2</polygon></area> The processing software will know that it needs to alert people in P2 and convey information that the fire is happening in area P1

      Description

      The <area> block in CAP may either:

      Refer to the area where the incident is taking place or affecting

      • or -
        It may refer to an area where there are people that we want to notify about the incident (Essentially a targeting area)
      • or-
        It may refer to both (often times the same area we want to target is also the area of the incident)

      It would be important for the processing system to know which it is, so as to take the proper action (for example system may target the people in the targeting area and send them a map of where the incident is taking place, and the two may be different)

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              Reporter:
              tpetel Tomer Petel (Inactive)
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