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Really GPS on the device or just tower trangulation data? Is there information availae on how this works? In Austria emergency services can not access GPS directly afaik.

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I spoke with someone supplying 911 dispatch systems and they said the data is available instantly from triangulation data and it is extremely accurate

Really GPS, but it may not be as universal as I thought. This 2016 article says it is launching only on Android and only in the UK and Estonia.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/google-now-automatically-provi...

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