Mass. State Police Seek Floor Numbers for Wireless Emergency Calls
Police need at least an estimated floor number for emergency calls from wireless devices, Massachusetts State Police Telecommunications Director Matthew Barstow said in a letter posted Wednesday in FCC docket 07-114. “A raw vertical estimate is of little operational value…
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if it is relative to height above mean sea level (AMSL) or above ground level (AGL),” Barstow wrote. “9‐1‐1 centers like ours simply do not have the resources to create and maintain indoor maps for buildings in our jurisdictions. Even if we did, we would not have the ability to translate AMSL or AGL to a floor, or visualize a three dimensional point in space.”