Emergencies

The West Midland ambulance service can use a grid reference to find you in an emergency.

Ring 112 on your mobile or 999

Give the map reference of where you are  in the form AB XXX XXX where A and B are letters and the Xs are numbers.

If you have a smart phone a quick way to find the map reference of where you are standing is to use the app OS locate produced by the Ordnance Survey. You can download it from Google Play or from the link just below, on your smart phone. It works on  Apple smart phones and those using the Android operating system.

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/os-locate

When you open OS Locate it simply displays your map reference. It can also act as a compass.

Example.  SP 244 545

What3Words
is worthy of investigation. It works with Google maps.

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