Brilliant app
I think this app will be fantastic for all rescue services. The choice of words is excellent, very easy to understand, and will not cause confusion.
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What is FindMe SOS?
FindMe SOS encodes your position with 4 words. These 4 words define your unique location within a 20 metre square. FindMe is valid worldwide.
All of the words used by FindMe are phonetically distinct - that means they will not cause confusion when spoken by a wide number of people, including non-native English speakers.
This makes FindMe different from other word geocoding apps that have no such safeguards in place.
FindMe's words are derived from sources including the NATO phonetic alphabet and the PGP wordlist, and then further refined using phonetic algorithms. This ensures maximum intelligibility over poor mobile/cell phone voice services.
This is essential for an emergency high-stress situation.
FindMe also has a speech synthesizer that allows the receiving caller to hear the 4 words. Long pressing on any label will also allow the words and coordinates to be copied.
GEOCODE
The FindMe Geocode application will allow you to turn your 4 words into commonly used map coordinates for each included country. Different words can be easily selected to provide a complete reverse-geocode facility.
Coordinates provided are as follows:
Decimal latitude longitude degrees (DLL)
Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
British National Grid (BNG)
Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM)
ACCURACY AND RESOLUTION
FindMe provides unique 20m square grid locations, and uses an equirectangular map projection to ensure accurate visualisation.
Modern cell/mobile phones will typically have a best-case location error of around ±5m - this means that your position is only accurate to within a 10m diameter circle. In poor conditions (e.g. due to non-ideal satellite constellation patterns, weather, obstruction), the error can be much larger.
FindMe therefore only provides a location to 20m, as we consider this as within consumer device capabilities and more than adequate for emergency location services. Unlike other word geocoding apps, we assert that any finer resolution is technically not guaranteed and unnecessary for this purpose.
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FindMe SOS encodes your position with 4 words. These 4 words define your unique location within a 20 metre square. FindMe is valid worldwide.
All of the words used by FindMe are phonetically distinct - that means they will not cause confusion when spoken by a wide number of people, including non-native English speakers.
This makes FindMe different from other word geocoding apps that have no such safeguards in place.
FindMe's words are derived from sources including the NATO phonetic alphabet and the PGP wordlist, and then further refined using phonetic algorithms. This ensures maximum intelligibility over poor mobile/cell phone voice services.
This is essential for an emergency high-stress situation.
FindMe also has a speech synthesizer that allows the receiving caller to hear the 4 words. Long pressing on any label will also allow the words and coordinates to be copied.
GEOCODE
The FindMe Geocode application will allow you to turn your 4 words into commonly used map coordinates for each included country. Different words can be easily selected to provide a complete reverse-geocode facility.
Coordinates provided are as follows:
Decimal latitude longitude degrees (DLL)
Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
British National Grid (BNG)
Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM)
ACCURACY AND RESOLUTION
FindMe provides unique 20m square grid locations, and uses an equirectangular map projection to ensure accurate visualisation.
Modern cell/mobile phones will typically have a best-case location error of around ±5m - this means that your position is only accurate to within a 10m diameter circle. In poor conditions (e.g. due to non-ideal satellite constellation patterns, weather, obstruction), the error can be much larger.
FindMe therefore only provides a location to 20m, as we consider this as within consumer device capabilities and more than adequate for emergency location services. Unlike other word geocoding apps, we assert that any finer resolution is technically not guaranteed and unnecessary for this purpose.
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Is Find Me SOS free?
Yes, Find Me SOS is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
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App Info
- Category
- Navigation
- Publisher
- michael brown
- Languages
- English
- Recent release
- 2.1 (11 months ago )
- Released on
- Aug 7, 2021 (3 years ago )
- Also available in
- United Kingdom, Pakistan, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Malaysia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, Türkiye, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, South Africa, Algeria, Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bahrain, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Czechia, Germany, Dominican Republic, Japan, Ecuador, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, United Arab Emirates
- Last Updated
- 2 months ago
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