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by stevefeinstein 3070 days ago
> potentially incredibly useful idea

Do you really want to depend on a startup's ability to keep their service running and well funded to the location needs of emergency services? Unless they donate the grid and word associations to the public domain, it's a bad idea to use proprietary data sources for emergency services especially since there's nothing wrong with longitude and latitude, and humans really don't need to be able to read it, computers do just fine with it.