[OASIS Issue Tracker] (EMERGENCY-10) Use Area Description field to name polygons

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Art Botterell commented on EMERGENCY-10:
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By the same token, if the multiple areas can be described by a single label, they probably should be a single Area.    In other words, I'm thinking we should look to help originators make better use the existing <areaDesc> field before asking them to populate another, potentially redundant element.

And of course having redundancy or semantic overlap among fields is almost always a bad thing in the structured-data context because it raises the problem of what to do if the two values conflict.

> Use Area Description field to name polygons
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>                 Key: EMERGENCY-10
>                 URL: https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/EMERGENCY-10
>             Project: OASIS Emergency Management TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: CAP 
>            Reporter: Tony Mancuso
>              Labels: CAP
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> Norm Mueller: alert.info.area.areaDesc: Use the Area Description field to name polygons. Is there a need to add fields for naming polygons?  



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