Implement a machine-readable CAP-XML feed of alerts

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Implement a machine-readable CAP-XML feed of alerts #345

Open Jonty opened 7 months ago

Jonty commented 7 months ago

There is currently no way to get a machine readable feed of alerts that can be integrated into other systems.

The standard for this is the Common Alerting Protocol which is used worldwide as an open transport mechanism for emergency alerts.

It would be really excellent to see this implemented. Right now the only option is screen-scraping and that is missing important data needed for reliable parsing, such as richer geographical information.

Jonty commented 7 months ago

Note: This has previously been researched and approved by the CDDO, but seemingly nobody implemented it and the issue was closed due to lack of activity: https://github.com/co-cddo/open-standards/issues/73