On Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:01:06 +0200 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. It's extremely rare to use it directly as an address. Instead, linear position gets turned into a house number. For example, a building eight and a half miles from the start of Long Road might be "850 Long Road". -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
