31
January
2020
We all know the frustration when navigating to a post code which leaves us in the middle of a country road with no sign of our destination and no idea which way to turn. We also know the difficulty of describing the location on a golf course of an irrigation box, or similar, to a contractor without physically taking them there. Then there is the situation of informing the emergency services the exact spot where an incident has taken place in the rough to the side of the 13th fairway. Post codes will get you to a general area but not the exact spot. To get there we need latitude & longitude or grid references or GPS coordinates, but these are unwieldy, difficult to memorise and transcribe....
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