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Signs including Stop, Yield, No Turns, No Trucks, No Parking, No Stopping, Minimum Speed, Right Turn Only, Do Not Enter, Weight Limit, and Speed Limit are considered regulatory signs. Some have special shapes, such as the octagon for the Stop sign and the crossbuck for railroad crossings.
A direction sign, more fully defined as a direction, position, or indication sign by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, is any road sign used primarily to give information about the location of either the driver or possible destinations, and are considered a subset of the informative signs group.
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 ...
Highway shield. A highway shield or route marker is a sign denoting the route number of a highway, usually in the form of a symbolic shape with the route number enclosed. As the focus of the sign, the route number is usually the sign's largest element, with other items on the sign rendered in smaller sizes or contrasting colors.
Screenshot of Google Maps with traffic option enabled. In 2007, Google began offering traffic data as a colored overlay on top of roads and motorways to represent the speed of vehicles on particular roads. Crowdsourcing is used to obtain the GPS-determined locations of a large number of cellphone users, from which live traffic maps are produced.
Google Street View in North America. Taken in October 2010, a Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California. In North America, Google Street View is available in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Greenland, and limited coverage in some more areas.
To make your layered custom map, sign into your Google Maps account and open or create a map. Add and name a layer, like "cool bars," then explore and save certain businesses to your layer.
Traffic warning signs with lights. Some warning signs have flashing lights to alert drivers of conditions ahead or remind drivers to slow down. In Britain, they are called warning lights. Flashing lights can be dangerous for people with certain forms of epilepsy and/or sensory processing disorder .