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I believe the intent of having the slightly wrong words give a large difference in location was to make it obvious that a slightly wrong location string is wron
by chipsa 5y ago
I believe the intent of having the slightly wrong words give a large difference in location was to make it obvious that a slightly wrong location string is wrong. If you know you're somewhere in Virginia, and it says England, they dispatcher can ask for it again.
- FerretFred 5y agoI would hope so :) But the fact that it "located" me somewhere else with 3 completely different words doesn't fill me with confidence!
- mbirth 5y agoThe intent maybe was there, but there are too many similar sounding or looking words that are much closer nearby where you can't be sure whether it's correct or not. There are also some news reports of rescue services ending up miles away from the caller because of a bad w3w code.