[LINK] Australian Disaster Information Smart Phone App

[Peter Bowditch]

No bushfire alert but it warns about tsunamis?

Really useful for people like me living a kilometre above sea level in the 
middle of a eucalyptus forest. I think I'll pass on this one.

> Mmmm ...
> 
> Factor in that it has no Bushfire functionality (but does have tsunami
> functionality), seems as slow as a wet week, provides only minimal
> disaster information, and as Tom's post said no alerts ... and one
> wonders why it was even released.
> 
> Not a red letter product, I'm afraid.
> ---
> On 12/12/2011, at 9:28 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> 
> > The Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, launched a 
> > "DisasterWatch" App for Apple iPhones and Google Android on 8 December
> > 2011: http://www.em.gov.au/Resources/Pages/DisasterWatchPhoneApp.aspx
> > 
> > The app provides information on "disaster events" using information 
> > provided by state emergency authorities. The application does not 
> > provide emergency alerts. Also there is no provision of this
> information 
> > via the web, or in any other format, only for iPhone and Android smart
> > phone users.
> > 
> > The Australian Emergency Management Institute needs to improve this 
> > application by providing emergency alerts and also providing the same
> > information via a web page and in other online formats.
> > 
> > A good first step would be to correct the errors in the Attorney 
> > General's Department "Australian Emergency Management" web pages. The
> > AEM home page has 77 Errors in the HTML. It also scores zero out of 100
> > on the W3C mobileOK Checker, with 3 critical, 5 severe, 2 medium and 6
> > low failures.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
> > PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
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