<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:45 PM Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:35 PM Kevin Kenny <<a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:48 PM Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Here in Indonesia it is very common for neighbors to build sign over<br>
the main entrance to their neighborhood, with the name of the<br>
neighborhood on top and some other info on the two columns supporting<br>
the sign.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For all the examples you give, they're not very useful as signs in terms of giving directions, and they have a more ceremonial role. I wonder if what we're dealing with isn't a public sculpture.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> I can only speak of Tulsa and Portland examples as those are the two metros where I've seen these most prolifically, though if you look on the back of many stop signs or the left side of the street after an intersection at the edge of a district (neighborhood), there will be a round sign (probably using a blank W10-1) with the district's logo. These signs line the perimeter of the district, making it possible to form the administrative boundary of the district.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting, but not exactly the ceremonial gateway to a neighbourhood. Where I grew up, there are a lot of ceremonial gateposts, but less elaborate, more like what you see in <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/uCT5EAEjGCn">https://goo.gl/maps/uCT5EAEjGCn</a> . Come to think of it, the subdivision where I live now still has a couple of its signs <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/F2YG14g1jfr">https://goo.gl/maps/F2YG14g1jfr</a>. There was one village near where I grew up that had actual, functioning gates on the roads going in and out - for an unknown reason, it wasn't a gated community. They're long gone, but you can see where they were in spots like <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/PsuvSPU9Pj72">https://goo.gl/maps/PsuvSPU9Pj72</a> .</div><div><br></div><div>I've not mapped any of these gateways; the most I've done is to map the boundary of the subdivision and tag it landuse=residential name=Orchard Park</div><div><br></div><div>Georgia puts its county road numbers inconspicuously on vertical green signs - shaped a lot like many states' mileposts, and maybe they are painted on the same stock as their freeway mileposts - on the back of STOP signs.</div><div><br></div><div>But I still think that the gateways that Joseph describes are most likely public sculptures rather than useful boundary markers - particularly if they are unofficial and erected by the residents.</div></div></div></div></div></div>