<div dir="ltr">In my experience, they are never dispatched to GPS coordinates. The PSAP gets the coordinates automatically pulled up in their mapping system showing the closest address.<div><br></div><div>The only time I've ever exchanged raw GPS coordinates was in ~2003 when the Garmin was out of batteries, and the spare was missing from a rescue vehicle and we were trying to tell a helicopter where we were.</div><div>I had 1/16th of a bar of service and managed to hit the neighboring 911 center. I asked them for my coordinates. They had to go to some special screen to give them to me, and then I relayed them to Life Flight.</div><div>They were off by about 500 feet, but there was only one clearing in a sea of trees, and we had flares.</div><div><br></div><div>-A</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:18 PM Jay Hennigan via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 9/27/21 13:34, Mark Lindsey via VoiceOps wrote:<br>
> In the top 25 cellular market areas, nationwide cell phone providers are <br>
> already required to provide Z-axis (elevation) data within 3 meters for <br>
> 80% of calls [for compatible devices]. The requirements increase each <br>
> year; by 2026, /all/ cellular providers are required to provide z-axis <br>
> precision for dispatchable location of +/- 3 meters everywhere in the US.<br>
> <br>
> This is all in addition to providing +/- 50 meter horizontal (x, y axis, <br>
> also known as latitude and longitude) precision for 911 calls.<br>
<br>
Interesting as elevation accuracy for GPS is worse than lat/long.<br>
<br>
So when first responders get dispatched to 34.2270545 degrees north, <br>
117.6422397 degrees west, 538 meters AMSL, where do they go? (I just <br>
randomly typed those numbers so if it's under a mountain don't blame me.)<br>
<br>
Considering just the x/y axis, determining the right room or suite in a <br>
large single-story office building, factory or warehouse is going to be <br>
a challenge. In a huge multi-story high-rise with poor to no internal <br>
GPS reception it's going to be nearly impossible. Especially if it's in <br>
the middle of a bunch of other high-rise buildings with corresponding <br>
multipath and reflections.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Jay Hennigan - <a href="mailto:jay@west.net" target="_blank">jay@west.net</a><br>
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880<br>
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV<br>
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