Article content Cellphone-based location technology should help Owen Sound police and fire dispatchers send help faster to emergencies in the city and in the many other communities they serve. The Earth has been mapped into three-metre-by-three-metre squares by using Global Positioning System technology for the location app what3words. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Emergency dispatchers using new location phone app Back to video After the free app is downloaded to a cellphone, the phone can translate those co-ordinates into a set of three words, which should be simpler to relay than a set of GPS numbers, to emergency dispatchers. Cellphones can record their co-ordinates, even without an Internet connection, as long as cell service is available.