iPhone emergency info
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That's a relief. Carting two phones round would be annoying.
I didn't know that. Don't know how either.
Did you know you can text to 999 rather than ring if you register with them first, may be good where you don't have much or any signal.
I used a label maker thingy to print out the Whatthreewords location of my front door with W3W at the start and stuck that on my phone. So W3W SCAN CLOAK CLOSER
Sorry, the signal is bad and the wind noise is making it difficult to hear - was that "stan, float, looser"? - say that again "can, clot, closer"?
Have you got a grid reference instead?
Sorry, this is a bit of a soap box of mine - we have a much more accurate and non-commercial system in the UK. Not all emergency services have bought into the W3W decoding.
Have you got a grid reference instead?
Sorry, this is a bit of a soap box of mine - we have a much more accurate and non-commercial system in the UK. Not all emergency services have bought into the W3W decoding.
Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies
Mountain Rescue in England and Wales shows the BBC dozens of wrong addresses it has been given.
www.bbc.co.uk
W3W combined with a text message is a lot more kid friendly in my opinion which is why I've done it.
Plus I've gone through the W3W strings that are near enough my house to pick ones that are easier to not mis-spell, many of the words they use would be tricky for a young un. Any emergency service not up to speed in the UK with W3W would hardly be put out by using it, or converting it.
I have read the perfectly understandable criticism of it, the fact that the "unique" identifiers are only unique within the 32 (?) languages they use, and OS is of course awesome. DMMSS.SS or DM.MMM or D.DDDD can be confused too, one mis-keyed grid reference for someone not paying attention, etc.
Just one idea for one scenario for my son.
Plus I've gone through the W3W strings that are near enough my house to pick ones that are easier to not mis-spell, many of the words they use would be tricky for a young un. Any emergency service not up to speed in the UK with W3W would hardly be put out by using it, or converting it.
I have read the perfectly understandable criticism of it, the fact that the "unique" identifiers are only unique within the 32 (?) languages they use, and OS is of course awesome. DMMSS.SS or DM.MMM or D.DDDD can be confused too, one mis-keyed grid reference for someone not paying attention, etc.
Just one idea for one scenario for my son.
Also worth learning how to get to your emergency dialling fast. For my iPhone, 5 fast presses of my power button gets the shortcuts up. Handy if you’ve fallen, etc.
It would be good if you specified what that’s for as it’s not how mine is set so I wouldn’t want others to get confused by thinking this also applies to them.
This is a great little free App following on from the GR vs W3W conversation:
OS Locate
Doesn’t rely on phone signal or mobile data. Just uses your phone gps to provide either OS G.R. or a Lat/Long position. Also gives altitude.
Can even be used as a tracker when you opt to share your position with others.
OS Locate
Doesn’t rely on phone signal or mobile data. Just uses your phone gps to provide either OS G.R. or a Lat/Long position. Also gives altitude.
Can even be used as a tracker when you opt to share your position with others.
Was watching a court trial last week, where the husband was shot, and his wife went into shock and couldn't unlock her own phone to call emergency services, and didn't know about emergency dialing.
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