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Default How do you give directions to the fire service when you do notknow what road you are on?

On Fri, 09 Aug 2019 00:46:12 +0100, Graham. wrote:

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...........


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That's a deliberate design decision, so that you know it's wrong.

Some emergency services do use it. As it happens, I was reading an
article in Engineering & Technology Magazine just an hour or so ago.
Here's the link to the online copy:

https://tinyurl.com/y6epj4j2



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