[Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 07:29:02 UTC 2019


> 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.smale at 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.
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Dave Swarthout
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