Methods and systems are provided for obtaining information related to a
customer service location and directions for routing a service technician
from one customer service location to another. One embodiment includes
requesting at least one set of coordinates associated with the customer
service location; accessing a technician server to direct a global
satellite positioning system to obtain the set of coordinates for the
customer service location; obtaining the coordinates and updating one or
more databases with said coordinates. The coordinates may include at
least one of a latitude and a longitude associated with the customer
service location. Another embodiment includes obtaining through a
technician server at least one set of "from" coordinates associated with
the first customer service location and at least one set of "to"
coordinates associated with the second customer location; transmitting
the "from" and "to" coordinates to a mapping system; and, generating
directions in the mapping system based on the "to" and "from"
coordinates. At least one of the sets of coordinates includes latitude
and longitude data. System and computer-readable media embodiments of
these methods are also provided.