18. A method of providing vehicle location information, comprising the steps of: (A) generating an assistance request signal from the vehicle; (B) receiving the assistance request signal at a second location, remote from the vehicle; (C) determining a longitudinal placement of the vehicle; (D) determining a latitudinal placement of the vehicle; (E) determining whether a known street is within a preselected distance from the longitudinal and latitudinal placement of the vehicle and determining the street within the preselected distance that is closest to the placement of the vehicle, said step E) being performed automatically by a computer; (F) generating a textual description of the vehicle location wherein the textual description lists closest street to where the vehicle is located and describes the vehicle location textually without reference to a graphical map representation; (G) providing the textual description at the second location in response to said step a); and (H) at the second location, dispatching assistance to the vehicle location based upon the textual description.
18. A method of providing vehicle location information, comprising the steps of: (A) generating an assistance request signal from the vehicle; (B) receiving the assistance request signal at a second location, remote from the vehicle; (C) determining a longitudinal placement of the vehicle; (D) determining a latitudinal placement of the vehicle; (E) determining whether a known street is within a preselected distance from the longitudinal and latitudinal placement of the vehicle and determining the street within the preselected distance that is closest to the placement of the vehicle, said step E) being performed automatically by a computer; (F) generating a textual description of the vehicle location wherein the textual description lists closest street to where the vehicle is located and describes the vehicle location textually without reference to a graphical map representation; (G) providing the textual description at the second location in response to said step a); and (H) at the second location, dispatching assistance to the vehicle location based upon the textual description. 19. The method of claim 18, further comprising the steps of determining a direction of travel of the vehicle and determining a speed of travel of the vehicle and wherein the closest street of step (F) is determined by determining whether a known street is within a second preselected distance from the vehicle placement and has a direction of permissible travel and a permissible range of speed of travel that correspond to the direction and speed of travel of the vehicle.