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To: snugs; tongue-tied; Allegra; All

The City of Westminster – the London Borough which encompasses the West
End Theater District and government buildings such as Parliament –
launched last week what it described as the first service in the United
Kingdom to help people find their nearest public loo using mobile phone
location technology.

SatLav is a play on words for the term used in the UK for consumer GPS
receivers – SatNav – and the word lavatory – for toilet. But SatLav
works by determining the location of the nearest public toilet for a
desperate user by triangulation with nearby mobile phone towers.

Read more:
http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/12/gotta_go_in_london_try_satlav.php


484 posted on 12/13/2007 6:17:39 AM PST by beachn4fun (With the holidays fast approaching, remember the deployed troops. A care package shows you care.)
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To: beachn4fun

hmmm...so that’s why my phone keeps “rebooting” here. It is looking for the loo. LOL


577 posted on 12/13/2007 11:51:21 PM PST by tongue-tied
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