FredC
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2010
- Location
- Dewees Texas
About a week ago we had an EMS call down the road from here. A request came from EMS for a helicopter transport. Our fire department should have been called but was not to take care of the landing site for the helicopter. The 3 agencies that were called and took care of the landing zone did not know that Google maps incorrectly locates our addresses on this road. You can type "W" or type out "west" "West" or "WEST!!!" and Google maps will go east. I am guessing the helicopter pilot used Google maps, he was asked by one of the ground crew if he wanted GPS coordinates but declined as his map showed a positive location for the address. From the time the pilot reported he was 2 minutes out till he landed was over 20 minutes. He did come from the east when finally sighted. Not sure if it made a difference but the patient died.
Mapquest will get you here no problem they seem to know east from west. I was able to force Google to get my address correct and the place where the patient died address by reporting a problem with the individual addresses. To fix the whole road, is the question. It has to be easier than going up and down the road and getting every single address and reporting the individual problems. I talked to the county emergency coordinator and they have no clue as to how to contact google. Local emergency coordinators took control of addresses from the Post Office about 20 years ago so that EMS, fire and law enforcement could find the people and locations in an emergency. They have a good system 100 on the address is a tenth of a mile, 1000 a mile, 12,501 will be 12 and a half miles on the south or east side of the road. Easy peasy! Wish Google could figure it out.
Mapquest will get you here no problem they seem to know east from west. I was able to force Google to get my address correct and the place where the patient died address by reporting a problem with the individual addresses. To fix the whole road, is the question. It has to be easier than going up and down the road and getting every single address and reporting the individual problems. I talked to the county emergency coordinator and they have no clue as to how to contact google. Local emergency coordinators took control of addresses from the Post Office about 20 years ago so that EMS, fire and law enforcement could find the people and locations in an emergency. They have a good system 100 on the address is a tenth of a mile, 1000 a mile, 12,501 will be 12 and a half miles on the south or east side of the road. Easy peasy! Wish Google could figure it out.