Tim+ wrote:
ARW wrote:
Basically between two villages. No houses, no pubs nothing (apart from a
field on fire).

You know the names of the villages and that is all.

Could the phone operator not work it out?


Optimist! I’ve found trying to give positions to emergency services an
incredibly frustrating experience. The main problem being that they’ve not
heard of the internet and search engines. Also, it takes an age to get
through to anyone who can understand grid references or any normal system
of identifying position that doesn’t involve street names and house
numbers.

“What three words” seems like a nice idea but I don’t hold out much hope of
any operator understanding the idea.
https://what3words.com/daring.lion.race

Tim




We have a perfectly good systems in the UK, the OS Grid System and Lat
Long, which you can access from most phones, car sat navs etc and the
Emergency services use, and are far more well known than things like
what3words.

What3words is and amusing toy, especially if you find the words somehow
link to the location but whereas an appropriate OS grid reference is still
useful, change one word in what3words and .......


NGRs seem archaic compared to lat/long in this context. If someone
calls for help they are likely to have access to GPS, not an OS map

I suppose our quaint British NGR is only an algorithm away, but why
complicate things?


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Graham.

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