<div dir="ltr"><div>> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>You are not mistaken. Many hotels and parks in the rural areas of Alaska mark their location that way. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 2:06 PM Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</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 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>On 2019-10-01 08:18, Florian Lohoff wrote:</p>
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<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:monospace">Hi Jorge,<br><br> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 08:15:37PM -0600, Jorge Aguirre wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding:0px 0.4em;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin:0px">Throughouthe entire Latin American region and some other parts of<br> the world, it is quite common to find the kilometer (Km.) information,<br> as may be found on the "highway:milestone", as part of the actual<br> addresses. Mostly used in suburban and rural areas, which may usually<br> not even have any visible references or even house numbers, the use of<br> the milestone is widely utilized to find an address in these regions.</blockquote>
<br> We have such addresses in Germany too. They are pretty rare though.<br> sometimes really rural mobile masts or copper distribution<br> street cabinets and stuff carry addresses like this.<br><br></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:monospace">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.</div>
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