Well, i've just been informed, that the VicEmergency website won't notify you of incident via email.
Long story, I won't go into details unless asked for
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Anyway, i've currently got a desktop RSS Reader that's subscribed to the CFA Incidents feed.(https://data.emergency.vic.gov.au/Show? ... ncidentRSS).
Nice, it works fine, but it receives the whole state.
I'm wondering if anyone has done, know how to, or has any ideas regarding:
Receiving the Incident RSS Feed,
than parsing the long/lat info out of the body,
then comparing this to a database, which contain longs/lats in a radius from a certain location,
then if it matches, plotting it on a map, and activating an external action (i.e. Notification Centre alert).
I know i'm asking for a lot, but any ideas?
Cheers blokes.
Oh, and I did come accross this: http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html
And, you can retrieve the EMV incidents map via text here: http://emergency.vic.gov.au/public/textonly.html, however it does not contain the specific long/lat info.