[EAS] CAP EAS Geography Problem

[William Eaton]

>Ok...IPAWS and CAP are what I am asking about, the FIPS are the same...........? so this is an aggregator issue ?According to the latest IS-247 material the IPAWS aggregation login determines the  FIP/FIP's for the message to code for i.e. the county EOC login just passes the message to the county and the State EOC login will aggregate the entire state, or selected FIPS or a Polygon/Circle drawn on an area map, as David stated. But on my CAP decoders the FIP for the entire state must be in the list if you want to enter the county FIP
So.....according to my FEMA contact the State EOC's have all the adjacent states on the map/FIPS selection and the county EOC's on state lines should have the access to adjacent counties in the adjacent state. 

 So  I just finished IS-247 again (since it had a major update in Sept 20113 NOT to pound anybody) and the GEOCODE Section states:
"IPAWS messages intended for EAS, CMAS and/or HazCollect should contain one or more location codes, usually corresponding to the county or counties for which the alert has been issued. If you have been authorized through the application process to issue alerts for more than one county, your software may present you with a pick list of county names and assign the corresponding FIPS code to the CAP alert."
And a NEW part not on the course I took last year is the POLYGON/CIRCLE States:
"Your authoring software may provide a map interface that allows you to draw a polygon or circle to define the affected area of the alert message and assign corresponding values to the CAP alert. Dissemination services that include a mapping component can then retrieve and display the more precise warning area. Cellular mobile service providers may opt to use the boundaries of the geospatially defined area to activate specific cell towers."

So is it not up to FEMA to provide the proper login credentials to the County EOC's that apply for IPAWS encoding portal access, ditto for the state EOC's that have the authoring software ?

If we could clarify this it would be great, a few of my clients are assigned to alert for two states. Perhaps someone out there has a FEMA contact that reviews IPAW's. authoring applications. 

If IS-247 is wrong and the situation is as stated......then "Houston we have a problem" 

 My only FEMA contact used to be the State of Fl. EOC  director, and our conversations now involve fishing trips vs. business. 

William Eaton
678-374-9660