> I may be mistaken but I seem to remember mile markers being used in rural areas of the USA to indicate linear position along a main road.
You are not mistaken. Many hotels and parks in the rural areas of Alaska mark their location that way. On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 2:06 PM Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2019-10-01 08:18, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi Jorge, > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 08:15:37PM -0600, Jorge Aguirre wrote: > > Throughouthe entire Latin American region and some other parts of > the world, it is quite common to find the kilometer (Km.) information, > as may be found on the "highway:milestone", as part of the actual > addresses. Mostly used in suburban and rural areas, which may usually > not even have any visible references or even house numbers, the use of > the milestone is widely utilized to find an address in these regions. > > > We have such addresses in Germany too. They are pretty rare though. > sometimes really rural mobile masts or copper distribution > street cabinets and stuff carry addresses like this. > > I may be mistaken but I seem to remember mile markers being used in rural > areas of the USA to indicate linear position along a main road. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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