It should be easy to enter information about the situation, create a task from that event and then track the progress of that task.

For the response phase, it's very important to be able to be able to be able to see who is doing what, where. After the event, reviewers should have a good understanding of what happened. A single point of entry of 'current information' A unified log of events that occurred would be highly beneficial.

Users have a text area field and map occupying half of the screen each.

A message/update received via MMS, phone, VHF, email, etc. This info is then entered into the textfield. Email/SMS messages have their text automatically inserted into the text area. A geographic point on the map is clicked, to provide location information.

Each feature on the map should be able to turned into a task. These tasks should be able to be allocated to other users, groups or organisations.

Authorised users should be able to review the status of the requests.

A detailed event log should be able to be easily generated.

Users go through the log of events and select if it is “SitRep Siginifcant”. This subset of messages is automatically ported to the situation reporting module for manipulation.

A sidebar that appears on all modules. It is populated by a list of tasks that are currently allocated to that user, possibly with a small map the is zoomed to a level that allows the location of all the events that generated the maps to be shown.