My Location for Emergency Calls
Your exact position, in the forms emergency services and rescuers use, big enough to read out over the phone, and ready to copy or text to someone.
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Latitude, longitude
- Degrees, minutes, seconds
- Plus code
- British grid reference
- UTM
- Height
- Found at
How to find and share your exact location
- Tap Find my location and allow location access when your phone asks.
- Wait for the accuracy to settle: outdoors with a clear view of the sky, GPS usually gets within 10 metres.
- Read the latitude and longitude out slowly, or the plus code, or the grid reference if you’re in Great Britain.
- Use Share or Text it to send it to someone, with a link that opens on a map.
About the formats
Latitude and longitude (in decimal degrees, to 5 decimal places, about a metre) is what every emergency service and mapping app understands. Plus codes are a short code for an area about 14 metres across, which works in any maps app. The British grid reference (Ordnance Survey National Grid, to the metre) is what mountain rescue teams and paper maps in Great Britain use; it’s converted from GPS with the Ordnance Survey’s own method, accurate to a few metres. UTM is used on many topographic maps and by search and rescue elsewhere.
When you call 112 in Europe, 999 in the UK or 911 in the US from a mobile, Advanced Mobile Location (AML) on most phones sends your position to the emergency service automatically, usually to within 100 metres or better. Telling them too does no harm, and it helps if you’re calling on someone else’s behalf, or the automatic location fails.
Your phone works out the position itself: it is never sent anywhere by this page unless you share it. GPS works without mobile data, though it can take longer to settle without it; indoors it may only find you to within tens or hundreds of metres.
Sources
Checked on 18 October 2026.
- EENA: Where are we with Advanced Mobile Location? how AML sends a caller’s location to emergency services, and where it’s used.
- Open Location Code specification how plus codes are made.
- Ordnance Survey: A guide to coordinate systems in Great Britain the Helmert transformation and the National Grid projection.
Questions about finding your location
How do I find my exact GPS coordinates?
Tap Find my location and allow location access. Your latitude and longitude appear in large figures, with how accurate they are; outdoors this is usually within 10 metres.
Do emergency services get my location automatically?
Usually, yes. Most Android phones and iPhones send it when you call 112, 999 or 911 (Advanced Mobile Location). It’s still worth being able to give it yourself, in case it fails or you’re calling for someone else.
Does GPS work without mobile data?
Yes. GPS comes from satellites, so it works without signal or data, although it can take a minute or two longer to get a precise fix.
What is a grid reference?
A position on the Ordnance Survey’s National Grid of Great Britain, such as NT 25163 73490: two letters for the 100 km square, then how far east and north within it. Mountain rescue teams and walking maps use it.