State guide

TAS emergency data: sources and coverage

Tasmania publishes four feeds in four different formats, and the incident type you most want to filter on is not a field at all. It is buried in a sentence of description text.

Overview

Tasmania publishes through TasALERT and the Tasmania Fire Service (TFS): TasALERT incidents over RSS, TFS fire data as KML, and TasALERT warnings as CAP-AU. Land Tasmania adds the warning zone polygons on a separate host, theList.

Available feeds

Feed	Format	Update	Coverage
TasALERT Incidents	RSS	60 sec	All incidents
TFS Fire Data	KML	5 min	Fire incidents
TasALERT Warnings	CAP-AU	5 min	Official warnings
theList Warning Polygons	ArcGIS REST	5 min	Warning zone geometry

Integration notes

Agencies: TASALERT-RSS (incidents), TFS (fire data), TASALERT (CAP-AU warnings and theList polygons).
Event type: The TasALERT RSS feed embeds the event type inside the description field as plain text, for example "TYPE: Structure Fire". There is no dedicated field, so it takes regex extraction to recover.
Geometry: TasALERT provides GeoRSS point elements and TFS provides KML coordinates. Both need converting to GeoJSON.
Auth: All four feeds are public. No authentication required.