[EAS] Google public alerts from CAP

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Wed Jan 25 17:20:45 CST 2012


Google announced on its blog today it has integrated public alert 
information from several sources using CAP with Google maps.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts

http://blog.google.org/2012/01/public-alerts-now-on-google-maps.html

Google doesn't need to follow either Part 10 or Part 11 of the FCC rules. 
So it has the flexibility to present alert and warnings however it feels 
is best for its users.  While Google omits some details, it also includes 
other more in depth information.  Its an interesting experiment in 
different ways of presenting information for use by the public.



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