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Terry Casey Terry Casey is offline
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Default How do you give directions to the fire service when you do not know what road you are on?

In article 983547472.587062064.716533.tim.downie-
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One would hope that emergency services could look at any OS map online.

Tim


UK Streetmap

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

gives access to all the Landranger maps as well as others at
various scales.

It also has a useful co-ordinates conversion facility.

For example, ths is a random location on the Isle of Wight:

OS X (Eastings) 443859
OS Y (Northings) 87438
Nearest Post Code PO30 4QP
Lat (WGS84) N50:41:06 (50.684951)
Long (WGS84) W1:22:50 (-1.380531)
Lat,Long 50.684951,-1.380531
Nat Grid SZ438874 / SZ4385987438
mX -153680
mY 6532674
Mapcode GBR 8BD.ZR1
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Terry

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