> Would this work with any lats and longs? At our PSAP the cell phone
> companies are listing lats and longs for location of the caller.
> Right now all we get is the location of the tower which does no good
> at all. So far two cell phone companies have completed this and we are
> waiting for the rest to finish. My boss has been looking at software
> where we can enter the lats and longs and get an address or even a
> basic location within about 50 yards or less of the caller. Are you
> doing this for work, a company, or just doing it because you can? I
> have been trying to get the fire department here to go over to Linux
> based CAD and get away from Winblows for all the obvious reasons.
> This might just get them started. Please let me know, Maureen
GRASS will plot a lat/long pair on the screen or to a graphic file, but
it doesn't know how to turn that into a street address. Would it help
you to have a map with the coordinate plotted on it?
--ronan
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