This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Embrace GeoRSS feeds for weather alerts/flood warnings/major roadworks
GeoRSS is a standard of passing information/warnings & alerts about things like: severe weather alerts/hurricane and tornado warnings/earthquakes/flood warnings/major road works/traffic accidents, etc. It's golden standard for publishing information about such events in other countries.
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Currently only British Geological Survey use GeoRSS for publishing information about earthquakes in the UK.
This being said, many public agencies already have data and infrastructure required for GeoRSS streams in place: Highway Agency, MET Office, Environment Agency. Such streams can be easily integrated into home automation software to warn residents about anything happening nearby. This could potentially save them time, save their property and maybe even their lives.
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