Vic is every 10 metres. So number 220 is 2200 metres or 2.2 km from east to west and from south to north. Google maps isn't too accurate giving the rural address. My parents are at 220 and google shows they owns the first 2.2 km. Even though there are at least other properties (without houses)
Even with the street numbering my old man bitches and moans about it. Any emergency service will come from the west so he thinks they will have to drive past his house to get to the start of the road and then come back again, the first part is almost a goat track.
My understanding is that this is a national standard. Our place in QLD is number 99 and the driveway is exactly 990m from the start of the road.
If NSW councils are choosing not to follow this standard, then it's just another example of their arrogance....
A few years ago a group of our 4wd club went to Israelite Bay.
One of them was bitten by a snake and the emergency was called in by Satphone.
Even though the SES supposed to be in the known of bush emergencies, the lady had no idea where Israelite Bay in NSW was.
That's correct, it is in WA as told by our club.
She was the same: postcode, address etc.
No idea that there is anything outside the city it seemed.
It took a long time before they arranged for an ambulance to go that way.
Mind you: a normal ambo. And you guessed it, it was bogged.
So the patient was loaded in the car and raced over the tracks towards Esperance.
I had written a very similar story, but deleted it.
On a 4wding trip we had come across a vehicle that had left the road and rolled a good 100m or more down a very steep paddock. A motorbike rider was first at the scene and had called the ambos. The road was a loop circuit, started as a well formed gravel road from the east before turning into a proper 4wd track further west, then linking back onto the main road. The exact location was given (which was on the normal road), but the ambos insisted they had to come from the west and their 4wd vehicle wasn't available.
And another was at work many years ago, we had someone squashed by a (slow moving) locomotive, the ambulance station was about 5km away from the incident, the call center was 100km away and the operator dispatched an ambulance to a location with a similar name, only it was 200km in the wrong direction. The person was removed from the scene by his work mates and taken to the ambulance station in the back of a work ute.
If it's not a house in a well signed street call center operators often struggle.
Usually the local emergency services know the rural areas and how to get there, it's the centralized call centers in metro areas staffed by numpties that cause the problems.
