 screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
kudos:1 | Concept is simple The concept is simple and people need to understand that this isn't the movies. When you call 911 it is harder to get your location pinpointed for the 911 service to dispatch personel to your position.
Don't believe me type your address in Google Maps... just the way the system is sometimes it is off sometimes it is right on. OnStar continues to calculate your position in the onboard computer so ti knows exactly where you are. Phones it's not a good enough device yet for 911 to find you.
Eventually we will get it right and will be the best thing since bread but for right now people need to understand that this is still trial and error and not every location will be the same. After we perfect it then there has to be adoption and for a government agency to adopt we all have to wait until they get the money.
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| I don't know why the darn phone can't just send the GPS coordinates to all the 911 location so we have a within 50 meter radius of where you are... which is WAY more accurate then cell tower triangulation or asking people "where are you"... |
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Oh please. if you're at your house or a house with an address and you know the name of the street you're on you better and you can speak you can surely give that to the 911 Center.
But what happens if you're out in the middle no nowhere and no landline available only a mobile phone? What are you going to do? die or try getting yourself help?
Stop it with the landline bullshit they're on their way out and ATT knows it. |
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screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
kudos:1 | reply to neufuse
Yeah I would like that too, I think part of the issue is privacy advocates too. Saying it's invasion of privacy to know where you are. I'm sorry my families safety is way more important than the corporation knowing I'm at a mcdonald's
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some counties do have GPS for their 911 centers NOT many do though because of the costly upgrades, blame this on your state and county for not upgranding the systems. The states get the money for 911 but REFUSE to pass it along to the counties, instead to use it to balance the budgets like everything else. |
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screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
kudos:1 | reply to hottboiinnc
Stop it with the landline BS? Come on... why not go where somewhere where there is NO MOBILE PHONE. Look around and get out of your bubble. Just becuse you have service with cell doesn't mean everyone does.
That's why hughesnet is still around
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| just because you don't have access to call out to others doesn't mean 911 WILL NOT work. In many cases thats the only way phones will work out in the wilderness. 911 only...And yah stop with the landline BS.. why promote something thats dead and favor it for your house? For your sake i surely hope you know your address. |
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screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
kudos:1
1 edit | I know my address so did 911 when I called when my grandma was sick... She repeated the address when I called too.
Believe me, if I could get VOIP I would, if we could switch to cell service and know for sure it would worked most of the time I would. It would save us money, but the problem is the technology just isn't reliable enough at this point to totally cut off all landline service.
I know ti is dying service, it just takes time for the other technology to step up to the plate to knock it out of the park.
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said by neufuse:I don't know why the darn phone can't just send the GPS coordinates to all the 911 location so we have a within 50 meter radius of where you are... which is WAY more accurate then cell tower triangulation or asking people "where are you"... Only newer phones have GPS chips. There are still millions of cellphones out there without GPS in them. And all the wireless 911 systems were built before GPS was being added to all new phones.
Eventually we will get were you want, but it takes time. Somehow a lot of people seem to forget that massive nationwide infrastructure changes take time. Too many people today think all change can be done in a few months instead of many years. Blame Apple who pumps out a new iPod or iPhone out every year. |
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| Only newer huh? My 7yr old phone had GPS in it.... it was even listed in the manual as "Enable GPS for e911 service" or "use for local applications only"... and this wasn't even a high end phone... just your standard cell phone with a small screen |
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LMAO! |
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cghh
join:2001-01-15
Milpitas, CA | reply to neufuse
All CDMA phones (Verizon Wireless, Sprint, MetroPCS) have long had GPS chips in them to provide e911 location info. GSM providers (at&t, T-Mobile) chose to use cell site triangulation for e911 location info. It is only more recently that GSM phones have started to have GPS hardware in them, starting with high-end phones like PDAs. |
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Suffern, NY | reply to screavic4
said by screavic4:OnStar continues to calculate your position in the onboard computer so ti knows exactly where you are. Unless you leave your cell phone turned off and turn it on to call 911, the phone should be able to track your current location just as well as OnStar does since it should be constantly getting an updated location as you move from one location to another. When first turned on, it takes up to 45-90 seconds for a GPS device to lock onto its current location (it must first download a set of tables to allow it to locate itself). |
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San Francisco, CA | reply to screavic4
I'm sure the gov't will plan a GPS deep in your anus just in case. |
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said by neufuse:I don't know why the darn phone can't just send the GPS coordinates to all the 911 location so we have a within 50 meter radius of where you are... which is WAY more accurate then cell tower triangulation or asking people "where are you"... Try getting a GPS signal deep inside, and GPS won't tell what exact room or floor someone is in, that's bad for places like NYC with skyrises
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| That would be more of an inherent limitation of GPS technology itself. The reason I say that is that one would run into the same issue with a standalone GPS receiver. |
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My crackberry has GPS in it...but it takes it a couple of minutes for it to pick up where it is when you ask it to refresh your location.
Most 911 calls are over in 60 seconds.
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I guess a year in real life is a month in your world golf. Fascinating bubble you live in. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to neufuse
said by neufuse:I don't know why the darn phone can't just send the GPS coordinates to all the 911 location so we have a within 50 meter radius of where you are... which is WAY more accurate then cell tower triangulation or asking people "where are you"... Your assuming too much of the average american to know where they are. I've had people in New York City, which is a grid layout, not know where north is, and not know how to use a map what so ever (God's view (Z axis) can't be rotated to land/horizontal view (X, Y axis)). Outside of wonderful number gird new york city, it would be tough for even me, when every 1 mile diameter village has an "Elm Street" and cul-de-sac heaven, or a gird that was never numbered. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to cghh
said by cghh: It is only more recently that GSM phones have started to have GPS hardware in them, starting with high-end phones like PDAs. But does ATT/TM's GSM protocol support the phone uploading GPS data automatically during a 911 call? and does the phone's firmware support it? Reason ATT/TM went with triangulation instead of AGPS was that they would have to ban all foreign non-USA targeted GSM handsets, because foreign handsets with quad band wouldn't have the american AGPS in them. |
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