For IOS it would appear GPS2SMS version 2 does exactly that
Cheers - Phil, On the road with his iPad > On 18 Aug 2019, at 12:06 pm, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > > John's on the path here: let's eliminate a potential cut-and-paste (or > remember "too many digits" step). If there isn't an app (Android, iOS...) > for "tap this button to ask the GPS to put my lat-lon into a (decimal) text > string and prompt me for the phone # of an SMS that sends it (with my return > phone #, of course)" there should be. It wouldn't be terribly difficult or > lengthy to write, imo. > > Lat-lon (decimal emerges as unambiguous) continues to be "we all have the > (open) tech to know exactly where this is" depending on how many decimal > points of precision. (W3W? Seems like BBC shilling for that particular > proprietary method, there are any number of such coordinates system out > there). > > Anybody know examples of such an app that goes straight from GPS lat-lon text > to SMS? > >> On Aug 17, 2019, at 6:22 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Apparently some Fire brigades ask people who are lost on moors etc to >> download What3words then tell them their location. >> >> Isn't there a simpler way? Perhaps to get a text message sent with the long >> and lat? >> >> ref >> https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-49319760 >> >> >> Thanks John >> >> >> -- >> Sent from Postbox >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
