How Google Maps Saved Lives


Saving lives during a flood and finding the location of distress calls might be harder than you imagined for a rescue team. During floods a normal street map is no use to you as you cannot recognize the street names and if you are in a chopper you need the latitude and longitude coordinates to locate a destination, choppers don’t have TomTom GPS. But if you happen to have a pilot who knows how to use Google and an iPhone you might actually save some lives.

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