On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:49:13 -0700 (PDT), Owain wrote:

Oh. *And why don't people ever put piggin numbers on their houses
that can be seem?

because they don't want ambulances to be able to find them in a hurry

Any ambulance service with even half a clue would use a GPS.

GPS mapping doesn't necessarily work down to front door level
particularly in areas with flats having multiple flats per door or
doors per building.

Or out in the sticks. Our post code plonks you in the middle of a field
1/2 a mile away. There is no road name to find the house name (no
numbers) along either.

The Ambulance service had a campagne a while back to update their address
database you could ring 'em up and give them NGR, Lat/Long or talk them
through your location so they could pinpoint you on their map.

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Cheers
Dave.