
Military) are using MGRS coordinates almost exclusively. In Iraq, Coalition Forces (particularly the U. Belle stated, "If I give an ambulance driver latitude and longitude coordinates, he's going to tell me where to go. As the Rhode Island 9 -1 -1 Director Ray La. For incidents where the provided coordinate cannot be correlated to a street address there is no way to readily communicate a location to first responders who can only use street addresses to find places. 9 -1 -1 organizations remain focused on conventional addresses, yet only about a fifth of the street addresses have been correlated to a coordinate. In Rhode Island, cell phones equipped with GPS chip sets can be rapidly located to within 15 -m of true position.
