Morrisroe explains support for GPS pin-drop like Uber or Lyft
Morrisroe says 311 is working with ESRI on a public-facing pin-drop tool that can also deliver coordinates in agency-required formats. Dinowitz says if it is good enough for Uber, it is good enough for New Yorkers.
Thank you for the question and the background.
I appreciate the timing, the date reminder.
Yes, that's the current state that we're in now.
So this is different.
So I want to just explain the difference between what you're describing, your testimony about using geolocation to find an address, and the actual problem
that so many of our constituents are facing, that is that latitude longitude doesn't always line up with an address.
So what steps is the 301 prepared to make to actually...
really use the geolocation, not to align it to necessarily an address, but to GPS coordinates, much as you would
You know, if you're getting an Uber or Lyft.
Right, right.
Thank you.
And again, for the context around that, it's helpful.
That's the work that we're doing, the work that I referenced in the opening statement.
That's the work that we're continuing with our partner, ESRI, use that acronym, to determine how we can do that.
For the public side, for the customer side, but then also be able to collect that and pass that to the agencies in the format that they need.
So that's the crux of the work that's underway.
Okay, but just to be clear, essentially you are supportive of the bill.
We are supportive of the GPS locator, the pin drop locator.
Pin drop locator.
Right.
If it's good enough for Uber, it's good enough for a New Yorker.
Right.