[EAS] Humans thwart disaster alerts - - URL

[Tim Stoffel]

Its too bad we can't come up with an open-source program that could map polygons to portions of counties. This would filter an incoming NWS alert (through CAP, of course) and convert polygons into to EAS county regions. This would be compared against a table of the station's coverage such that if a station didn't (for instance) cover the northwest corner of a county, any alert for that area would not be propagated through to the encoder. This would be automagic, and no one would have to give the process any thought during a time of severe weather.  This might not completely solve our problems, but might help reduce needless alerts on a given station. In the process, it might get that county section data out there to the public.

Tim Stoffel