"Graham." wrote in message
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On 08/08/2019 08:16, Brian Reay wrote:
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 .......

It is no toy, unless you're a child. It's an easy, effective way to
provide a location within 10m.

Change one number or letter in an OS grid...........

///monks.adjust.matter is our local tip
///monk.adjust.matter is Powstancow Slaskich, Zernica, Poland

Urk, that's very bad design.