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Mileage sign. A mileage sign, sometimes also called a route confirmation sign or simply a distance sign in certain contexts, is a type of road sign along highways that displays the distance from the current point on a highway to a certain city, destination, or a junction to another highway. Their purpose is to inform drivers of the distance to ...
11th edition of the MUTCD, published December 2023. In the United States, road signs are, for the most part, standardized by federal regulations, most notably in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and its companion volume the Standard Highway Signs (SHS).
Traffic sign. A "route confirmation" sign on the Warrego Highway in Queensland, Australia, informing motorists of their distance (in kilometres) from the places listed. Fingerposts and other road signage in the English village of Sturminster Marshall, near Poole. Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to ...
A Prussian milestone c. 1836, reading "II MEILEN BIS BERLIN" ("two miles to Berlin").. The first direction signs were milestones on the Roman road network; finding one's location on the long, straight roads was difficult, and hence, large stones were placed at intervals along the roads, giving the distance in Roman miles to nearby major cities, and usually to the capitals of major provinces.
Mile marker 23 on US 36 in Delaware County, Ohio. It marks the location which is 23 miles from the Union County line. A highway location marker is the modern-day equivalent of a milestone. Unlike traditional milestones, however, which (as their name suggests) were originally carved from stone and sited at one-mile intervals, modern highway ...
A non-primary road sign near Bristol shows Guildford Rules patches.Road signs in the United Kingdom and in its associated Crown dependencies and overseas territories conform broadly to European design norms, though a number of signs are unique: direction signs omit European route numbers, and road signs generally use the imperial system of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe ...
Coordinates. 14°41′51″S75°8′6″W / 14.69750°S 75.13500°W. Location of Nazca lines in Peru. The Nazca lines ( / ˈnɑːzkə /, /- kɑː / [ 1 ]) are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [ 2 ] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in ...
Local traffic road signs usually employ black text on white. Exceptions are the Czech Republic (yellow-on-black), Finland (white-on-black), Austria and Spain (white-on-green), as well as Denmark, Iceland and Poland (blue-on-white). Tourist sighting signs usually employ white on some shade of brown.