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Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:14:15 GMT
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:46:42 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve
Bliss) wrote:
> Some towns really have fun with this. In one place I lived, all roads
> are numbered (not named). • <snip>
> Of course, this is just a verbose way of coding ordered pairs of
> cartesian coordinates. But it seems ugly and confusing.
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 quadrant you have the (I made these up, for I
don't know the english equivalents) moss-green street, the basil-green
street, etc. I never knew there were so many names for different
shades of red/blue/yellow/green. Not all that practical, but I'm sure
it looked cute on the proposal.
The street I really like is in Utrecht, the one that the university is
on, called (loose translation) 'The road to wisdom'
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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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| | US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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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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