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(...) Some towns really have fun with this. In one place I lived, all roads are numbered (not named). Roads which run East-West are called streets. Roads which run North-South are called avenues. The numbering system starts with 1 at a central (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snip> (...) In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc. So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'. And within the green (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Will people get to pick the color of their 'Home'? 'Cause, if so, I want Dibs on where ever Pine Green is (if that's okay). :) Jeff (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Seriously?! That's so great to hear!!! One thing we're looking at for the LUGNET community map(s) is color-coding the boundary markers for a sense of overall location. Numbers alone just don't cut it. At first it was going to be four main (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, the houses have red, yellow, or blue roofing. Hmm, Pine Green, eh? I think that's at about W4,S3 (West 4, South 3). That might wind up being inside the reserved area at the center. Then again it might not... Maybe the coloring should (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) They just vary the names. All signs are blue with white lettering. I don't know if there is a sysyem in the color names. My knowledge of those names is almost non-existant so I don't know if a green-street near the blue quadrant has a blue-hue (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Living there would drive me crazy for sure! I remember that in Atlanta ,where all the streets are called peachtree. There are one of the peachtrees lane, street, road, whatever that E and W where parallel streets a block away from each other. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Paulo Caparica Junior <paulocjunior@hotmail.com> wrote (...) In NZ we have a rule that the main street in every town is called Queen St. From memory something like 1 in 10 towns do this. And nearly as many use High St instead. Moz (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(Yes, I know this is an old message, but I just saw it.) (...) Um, *what* community map(s)? This sounds... well, interesting. (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's OK -- that's one of the reasons the messages stay here so long. (Instead of expiring after 2 weeks.) (...) (URL) out the links near the bottom of the page and the text in the first few areas at the top... --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow. I may not have been here in time to watch the foundation being poured, but it looks like I have plenty of time to help stack a few bricks. (:3 (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah. Weg naar de Wetenschap. Main arterial road between the university complex and the freeways and the city. Always liked that one, myself. Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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