Embrace GeoRSS feeds for weather alerts/flood warnings/major roadworks

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do, specifically what you mean by "embrace these feeds". Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

23 Sep 2018	Petition opened for signatures
8 Oct 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 8 Oct 2018

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