GPS doesn't function particularly well indoors for a variety of technical reasons.
> On Oct 26, 2018, at 1:07 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've always wondered why VoIP phones don't have a cheap GPS chip in them. > > Sure, it could raise all sorts of problems from a spoofing > perspective, but for valid 911 calls it could come in handy... > > -A >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:41 PM Ryan Delgrosso <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Automatic, nope. Psuedo-auto im looking at it now. >> >> West supports sending custom headers to indicate a phones location inside a >> building to provide additional routing info but nothing using geo-location. >> >> You could leverage this to have phones send custom headers based on network >> location. >> >> I have not seen anything using geo-ip or GPS primarily because most IP >> handsets dont to those things. >> >> >> >> On 10/23/2018 4:21 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: >> >> Is anyone doing this yet? The ability to detect the location of a phone and >> automatically update the 911 address? Yes, I realize it's a difficult if >> not impossible thing, yet thought I'd ask since a customer asked me. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
