“Where are you?” is the question that slows every incident down
In a real incident, half the radio traffic is people describing where they are, and describing it badly. “Near the loading bay. The other loading bay.” Every minute spent triangulating a verbal description is a minute not spent helping. A dot on a map ends the conversation.
whoot. now puts one there. When someone opens their alert response link and chooses to share their location, their position streams to the incident map, live. Operators see pings that update in real time, trails that show where each person has been, and a picture of the whole incident that a wall of text messages could never provide.
Every position also carries its what3words square: three words you can read straight down a phone line to emergency services, with no grid references to mistype. Under pressure, three words beat sixteen digits every time.
People on the whoot. mobile apps can go further: continuous background sharing on iOS and Android keeps their position reporting with the phone in a pocket and the screen off, with a pause switch that is always one tap away. And because location and alerting are one system, operators can draw a free-hand shape on the map and alert exactly the people inside it.
See the whole incident at a glance
What live location adds to the incident map, and how it stays in the right hands.
- Live pings
- Positions stream to the incident map as people respond
- Freshness at a glance, with the age of every position fix
- The map updates in real time as the incident unfolds
- Movement trails
- See where someone has been, not just where they are
- Spot who is moving towards the assembly point and who is not
- Motion summaries turn raw fixes into a readable picture
- what3words built in
- Every position carries its three-word square
- Read a location straight to emergency services
- No coordinates to mistype under pressure
- Background sharing in the apps
- iOS and Android can share continuously during an incident
- Keeps reporting with the phone in a pocket, screen off
- No response page needed for people already on whoot.
- Consent and control
- Sharing starts with an explicit tap, never silently
- A pause switch is always one tap away, on web and in the apps
- Per-workspace retention limits decide how long trails are kept
- Target by geography
- Draw a free-hand shape on the map to select people inside it
- Alert exactly the area affected, no more and no less
- Location and alerting work as one system, not two
Instead of asking where people are, look at the map.
Live location is powerful in an emergency and restrained everywhere else
Location is the most sensitive data a safety system touches, and we built this feature as if that were the whole specification. Sharing starts with a clear, explicit tap, never silently and never by default in the background of someone's day. Wherever location is being shared, a pause control is there too. Positions go to your incident operators and nobody else, retention is capped per workspace, and anyone can register an objection. The result is a capability your people can genuinely trust, and that is the only kind that works when it matters.
- Location sharing always starts with an explicit, informed tap
- A visible pause control accompanies sharing the whole time
- Positions are visible only to your incident operators, never to other recipients
- Per-workspace retention limits, so trails are never kept longer than you choose
- People can object to live location and have that recorded on their profile
- The whole capability is covered by our published data protection assessment