Systems and methods for location-based alert generation

A method of generating location-based alerts for mobile device users using an alert generation server in communication with a plurality of official alert systems, each official alert system monitoring one or more types of alert events, the method comprising:

• providing a mobile alert application to a plurality of mobile devices in communication with the alert generation server;
• receiving, by the alert generation server, official alert data from the plurality of official alert systems, the official alert data defining a plurality of official alerts;
• extracting, by the alert generation server for each official alert, corresponding alert location information from the received official alert data;
• generating, by the alert generation server, an official alert geographic location code for each official alert based on the extracted alert location information;
• assigning, by the alert generation server, each official alert an official alert type based on the received official alert data, the official alert type defining the type of event indicated by that official alert;
• defining, by the alert generation server, a plurality of alert events based on the plurality of official alerts using the assigned official alert type and official alert geographic location code generated for each official alert, wherein each alert event has a defined event alert type that corresponds to the official alert type for one or more of the official alerts and a geographic region code that defines a geographic region for the alert event that includes the location identified by the official alert geographic location code for the one or more official alerts;
• determining, by the mobile alert application operating on one of the mobile devices based on location data from that mobile device, that the mobile device is located within a threshold proximity of the geographic region defined by one of the alert events;
• and
• generating, by the mobile alert application operating on that mobile device, an alert notification for a user of that mobile device, the alert notification identifying the alert event and providing an indication that the mobile device is within the threshold proximity of the geographic region of that alert event.