johnalison
Well-known member
I can see the reason for precision, but some percentage or other of their calls will be from people calling in from their mobile phones, from land or boat, giving local references only. The system has to take this into account or it is a failure.They will want lat/long - for the reason that the person handling the call may be at Thames Barrier (in your Tower Bridge scenario) but equally could now be at Dover, Falmouth, Stornoway, Lerwick....
This is the "benefit" of the national network - incidents can go to the quietest station, which in theory is good for workload planning, but there will be zero local knowledge. The CG will be able to see the range of aerials picking up the call, but there is no DF - and the op will not know if there is one, or seven, Tower Bridges in that area - and to be fair to them, it that scenario, I wouldn't want them googling and guessing, I've seen that go horribly wrong before.