Long story short, I just learned that the city I’m in and the surrounding cities don’t have the capability to receive e911 data. Even though all modern phones are e911 capable, 911 operators can’t pickup on this data. Apparently it’d cost millions to upgrade their equipment and they’re fighting budget cuts and lay offs and the idea of spending millions on new equipment to replace old equipment is too much.
Anyways, I realize that most modern phones have GPS chips and know their coordinates. I’ve even seen some apps that can determine your ‘address’ by your GPS coordinates (compass). Do you think it’d be possible that when you call 911 it has the ability to read the GPS coordinates and could inject audio into the call and read off the GPS coordinates to the 911 operator. I was thinking of when you call 911 there’d be a button that shows up that the caller could hit and it’d inject audio at that time. If injecting audio isn’t possible, maybe when 911 is called, the phone could display the GPS coordinates on the screen, even better, maybe It can display the nearest street address, this way the caller can at least see it and read it off to the 911 operator. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
