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Re: GPS Accuracy

Mark Arend (arend@CENTURYINTER.NET)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:15:35 -0500


At 02:54 PM 7/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
> Cell
>phones are becoming a real problem out here because people believe they are
>there rescue source.

I remember a newspaper article a while back. It seems that all the 911 cell
phone calls for a good-sized chunk of Wisconsin are routed through one of
the sherrif's offices. They got a call from someone in trouble and the
person only knew that they were on Highway 41 on a bridge over big water.


Mark W. Arend
Beaver Dam Community Library
311 N. Spring St. Outside of a dog, a book is
Beaver Dam, Wisc. 53916 man's best friend. Inside of
(920) 887-4631 (fax 887-4633) a dog it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx
www.centuryinter.net/bdlib/
Scoutmaster, Troop 736

mailto:arend@centuryinter.net

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