The WMO CAP Compposer is a Wagtail based Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Warning Composer developed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Office for Africa (RAF).

This is a web-based tool for creating and managing CAP alerts. It is designed to be used by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), disaster management agencies, and other organizations that have the authority to publish and disseminate CAP alerts.

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) provides an open, non-proprietary digital message format for all types of alerts and notifications.

This tool formats published warnings into the CAP XML that follows the structure of the schema provided at http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.html

• Modern user-friendly composer that follows CAP 1.2 standard. Built on top of the awesome Wagtail CMS
• Preview a CAP alert as you edit. Save drafts for sharing with colleagues and collaborating
• Inbuilt CAP validation. The page will not save if you have not input the required data according to CAP standard
• User-friendly alert area map tool that allows multiple ways of constructing alert geographic areas, while keeping the interface simple
  • Upload and use your country/territory's administrative boundaries
  • Draw a polygon
  • Draw a circle
  • Selecting predefined areas that you create beforehand for common alert areas
• Inbuilt publishing workflow using Wagtail's powerful page model, with automated emails to composers and approvers
• Collaborate with team members using inbuilt comments (similar to how you could do in Word) with automated notifications. Request for changes and approvals
• Publish realtime notifications/messages to third party integrations using MQTT messaging protocol
• Predefine a list of hazards types monitored by your institution, with intuitive icons from OCHA humanitarian icons
• Extendable to add your custom logic and functionality. The package provides an abstract django model that can be inherited for customizations.

Please consult the WMO CAP Composer Documentation for information on installing and using the CAP Composer.

See LEGAL.md

The WMO CAP Composer was developed by the following NORCAP-funded developers:

• Grace Amondi
• Erick Otenyo