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There's another thing to keep in mind: Bluetooth. I was biking and noticed a fire so I called the emergency number. I didn't notice that I had my Bluetooth hea

There's another thing to keep in mind: Bluetooth. I was biking and noticed a fire so I called the emergency number. I didn't notice that I had my Bluetooth headset connected to the phone, since I was listening to a podcast maybe half an hour earlier during the ride but never use it for talking on the phone. So I didn't even hear the ringing an nothing, I was wondering if something was broken, until I realized that it was using the headset for the call. In the end this was no problem because I noticed fast enough, but what became a problem was notifying my location. I started passing him the Plus Code which was the first thing shown on the emergency screen: the call center person got annoyed asking me what I was reading to him. So I opted to read him the full GPS coordinates, where he then told me that this appears to be a completely different location from what I described him before resorting to the Plus Code. Then there is a map on the screen which you have to tap on in order to get a full map view with street names, which finally helped passing the location. It was a horrible experience in the sense that this technology seemed to make it more complicated while under stress. Why show Plus Codes if they are not an agreed upon standard? Why not show me the nearest street names, which in my case was a bit problematic because I was on a field, but highlight and name some well known POI's, after all, Google has a huge database of ranked POIs. Something like "One third between POI 1 and POI 2".

wingworks 4y ago
It's pretty frustrating, Google Maps doesn't even show the GPS code for allot of locations, like your GPS blue bubble or places, you have to select an empty space on the map, then it'll tell you the GPS cords of that spot (as well as plus code). It's pretty frustrating, I've called 911 once, and was way more frustrating then I'd have liked it to be just to get my GPS location. Like you say, no one knows what this plus code is, (personally I do like the plus code, but it's useless if the receiver doesn't know what to do with it)

wingworks 4y ago

It's pretty frustrating, Google Maps doesn't even show the GPS code for allot of locations, like your GPS blue bubble or places, you have to select an empty space on the map, then it'll tell you the GPS cords of that spot (as well as plus code). It's pretty frustrating, I've called 911 once, and was way more frustrating then I'd have liked it to be just to get my GPS location. Like you say, no one knows what this plus code is, (personally I do like the plus code, but it's useless if the receiver doesn't know what to do with it)