This does exist, of course, ans open source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.perm.trubnikov.gps2sms&hl=en_US&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dgps+to+sms&pcampaignid=APPU_1_meRYXYf3HYqJrwSTj73oDQ
Le 18 août 2019 05:26:02 GMT+02:00, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> a écrit : >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
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