[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

[Michael Patrick]

 > To play Psychostik's advocate, translating girl directions.  "OK, now
stay right while you're turning left, because you're going to hang a right
after seriously the biggest tree you've ever seen, go five lampposts down,
turn left on McCallaugh...or was it McDowell?  McSomething.   Then you'll
keep going and hang a right after the Adopt-a-Highway sign for Drew Curtis'
FARK
UFIA."

Because I am a Luddite with a $15 drug store burner phone with minimal text
capability, I frequently transmit the sort of Val-Gal girl directions
above. Also known as "Kolmogorov Directions" ( see
http://xkcd.com/1155/), with two other additional merged Kolmogorov
sets (reassurance markers
("If you see the Burger King you are still on track" and exclusionary
markers ( If you see Doofer's you have gone too far"). Formulation uses a
further variation of 'minimum turns' and slackening of the end point
criteria (to where you can actually park, rather than the building). :-)

Michael
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