<html><head></head><body>This does exist, of course, ans open source:<br><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.perm.trubnikov.gps2sms&hl=en_US&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dgps+to+sms&pcampaignid=APPU_1_meRYXYf3HYqJrwSTj73oDQ">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.perm.trubnikov.gps2sms&hl=en_US&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dgps+to+sms&pcampaignid=APPU_1_meRYXYf3HYqJrwSTj73oDQ</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 18 août 2019 05:26:02 GMT+02:00, stevea <steveaOSM@softworkers.com> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">This feels like an interesting side project for OSM to keep its hands warm, rubbing over the campfire, ready to toss in a shoulder of help if needed. Warin (below) says "a few years" yet I think with some good communication, coordination among countries, 112 / E911 / 999 communities, mutual aid / volunteer fire departments, writers / coders of iOS and Android apps, this could really turn into something reasonably effective in a year or less. A 1.0 that works worldwide and is extensible to any country (depending on phone / cellular / G3-G4-G5 tech, whether the call center can handle SMS, whether the helicopter pilot and rescue team have data delivery systems that show them a map or visually / aurally read a string of lat-lon digits — not helpful, a visual map is usually immediately human-parsable) seems quite feasible to me.<br><br>By 2020. Nice discussion. Thank you for introducing the topic, John. May it continue and blossom.<br><br>SteveA<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Aug 17, 2019, at 8:19 PM, Warin <61sundowner@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>On the SMS front, it is not a question of an app but the receiving organisation<br><br>Internationally 112 is the single number that is allocated to emergency services from cell phones.<br>In some countries that gets you a call centre that then sends you off to the police, fire or ambulance. in other countries you may end up with only the police.<br><br>Having them all contactable by SMS would be nice... but I don't think it is going to work world wide for many years.<br></blockquote><hr>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>