Harald Welte wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:06:20PM +0100, Tilman Baumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm just wondering if there are any open standards for emergency >> services for location. >> I'm thinking about services like http://www.steiger-stiftung.de >> (European, websites in other languages should be available)
I have asked them. They are basically not prepared to share any information on details. It is somehow a service they provide, but how it is implemented is unknown. Reply to my question if I might have some information to make my phone use their service, the answer was 'there are many phones which support us...' Yes, and I want to become one of them. But this is to much to ask from them. Stupid fuckers. I'm sure they did not even understand what I was asking. :-/ eCall seems to be a more open system, but still no real informations to find. And it as a slightly different focus too. >> A SMS to the respective emergency (112, 911) number containing the >> GPS position could be a start, but then someone has to read it. >> I would guess there is a standard for a computer readable format. >> >> Building a emergency call app would be a nice thing to have. >> >> PS: According to Wikipedia, 112 works on all GSM networks no matter if >> the number is a emergency number in tie state. > > that depends on what the network operator does. Yep, but there seems to be some international agreement on the significance of 112. I don't have any quote yet, but as far as I understood it is even required to by the GSM standards. But that might be wrong. > The SIM card has a list of > emergency numbers. If you call one of those numbers, or make an emergency > call without a SIM card inserted, the phone will do itts request for a > physical > channel indicating its a EMERGENCY call, and then use EMERGENCY SETUP instead > of SETUP, so the network can decide to rather kill somebody elses call and > free > resources for your emergency call in case the cell is otherwise full. That would be a great thing to have indeed. This needs to be included in the (FSO) dialer/contacts framework. Including the other special numbers the sim has, like ones own. -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
