This feels like an interesting side project for OSM to keep its hands warm, rubbing over the campfire, ready to toss in a shoulder of help if needed. Warin (below) says "a few years" yet I think with some good communication, coordination among countries, 112 / E911 / 999 communities, mutual aid / volunteer fire departments, writers / coders of iOS and Android apps, this could really turn into something reasonably effective in a year or less. A 1.0 that works worldwide and is extensible to any country (depending on phone / cellular / G3-G4-G5 tech, whether the call center can handle SMS, whether the helicopter pilot and rescue team have data delivery systems that show them a map or visually / aurally read a string of lat-lon digits — not helpful, a visual map is usually immediately human-parsable) seems quite feasible to me.
By 2020. Nice discussion. Thank you for introducing the topic, John. May it continue and blossom. SteveA > On Aug 17, 2019, at 8:19 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On the SMS front, it is not a question of an app but the receiving > organisation > > Internationally 112 is the single number that is allocated to emergency > services from cell phones. > In some countries that gets you a call centre that then sends you off to the > police, fire or ambulance. in other countries you may end up with only the > police. > > Having them all contactable by SMS would be nice... but I don't think it is > going to work world wide for many years. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
