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  • D David Wulff

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico&ll=32.276123,-106.905407&spn=0.092407,0.153928&hl=en[^] What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Thanks guys. :rose:


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    David Wulff wrote: Is it 10? 70? 180? It is probably all of the above, 10+70+180 = 260. ;)

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      http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico&ll=32.276123,-106.905407&spn=0.092407,0.153928&hl=en[^] What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Thanks guys. :rose:


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      Drive west along Interstate 10 (or I-10). The red and blue sheild shaped signs mean an interstate hiway (usually the best multi-lane divided roads). The older white sheilds mean US Hiway (US 70). Rectangular signs are generally state hiways, round ones county roads. I know, more than you wanted to know...:-D Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg

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        Drive west along Interstate 10 (or I-10). The red and blue sheild shaped signs mean an interstate hiway (usually the best multi-lane divided roads). The older white sheilds mean US Hiway (US 70). Rectangular signs are generally state hiways, round ones county roads. I know, more than you wanted to know...:-D Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg

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        Thanks.


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        • D David Wulff

          http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico&ll=32.276123,-106.905407&spn=0.092407,0.153928&hl=en[^] What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Thanks guys. :rose:


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          The title says it all. Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated--Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons Toasty0.com Ladder League (beta)

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            The title says it all. Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated--Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons Toasty0.com Ladder League (beta)

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            Toasty0 wrote: WTH is a USians? The title says it all. ;)

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              David Wulff
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              Someone from the U.S., just as someone from Code Project is a CPian.


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              • D David Wulff

                Someone from the U.S., just as someone from Code Project is a CPian.


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                Stan Shannon
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                Wouldn't that make you a UKian? "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."

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                • D David Wulff

                  Someone from the U.S., just as someone from Code Project is a CPian.


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                  Coining our own labels these day, David? Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated--Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons Toasty0.com Ladder League (beta)

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                  • D David Wulff

                    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico&ll=32.276123,-106.905407&spn=0.092407,0.153928&hl=en[^] What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Thanks guys. :rose:


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                    What Rob said. Also, the 10 along the smaller yellow is either called 10-bypass or business-10. A bypass is an offshoot of a highway that runs through a busy area, and typically handles traffic trying to bypass the city. Business, on the other hand, will typically bring you closer to the heart of the busy area. In this case, I would guess it's called business, since it looks like it heads into town. BW


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                      Wouldn't that make you a UKian? "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."

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                      Yup.


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                        David Wulff
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                        I'm not the only Code Project member who's used those names, I copied it off someone else (UKian I think, I really don't remember it was so long ago).


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                          What Rob said. Also, the 10 along the smaller yellow is either called 10-bypass or business-10. A bypass is an offshoot of a highway that runs through a busy area, and typically handles traffic trying to bypass the city. Business, on the other hand, will typically bring you closer to the heart of the busy area. In this case, I would guess it's called business, since it looks like it heads into town. BW


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                          David Wulff
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                          Why in this map[^] does the yellow road have two numbers on the same shape/sign?


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                          • D David Wulff

                            I'm not the only Code Project member who's used those names, I copied it off someone else (UKian I think, I really don't remember it was so long ago).


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                            i've used "USians" in the past. (not to imply you copied it from me ... and, i didn't invent it, either) Image Toolkits | Image Processing | Cleek

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                            • D David Wulff

                              Why in this map[^] does the yellow road have two numbers on the same shape/sign?


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                              Some roads merge and split, such that you can have stretches of road that are part of several different highways. Medication for us all You think you know me, well you're wrong

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                              • D David Wulff

                                http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico&ll=32.276123,-106.905407&spn=0.092407,0.153928&hl=en[^] What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Thanks guys. :rose:


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                                David Wulff wrote: What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Sometimes two highways travel the same road. "Drive West on I-10" or "Drive West on Highway 70" Both will work. Letting the person know that both highways combine is optional. It might confuse the person or help them. Don't know if you need it but this covers some USA driving tips: http://www.usatourist.com/english/tips/driving.html[^] Later, JoeSox "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there." -Thomas Berger CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ Audioscrobbler

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                                  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico&ll=32.276123,-106.905407&spn=0.092407,0.153928&hl=en[^] What is the name of that highway. Is it 10? 70? 180? How would you refer to it if you wanted to tell someone to drive on it heading out of the city. "Drive west along ... ?" Thanks guys. :rose:


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                                  I-10 or Hwy 70, both works. Actually, As a German I find the street numbering/naming is the one thing the USians got right.


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                                    i've used "USians" in the past. (not to imply you copied it from me ... and, i didn't invent it, either) Image Toolkits | Image Processing | Cleek

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                                    bob says it was you Clickety[^]


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                                      bob says it was you Clickety[^]


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                                      :) well, i know i didn't make it up. Image Toolkits | Image Processing | Cleek

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                                        I-10 or Hwy 70, both works. Actually, As a German I find the street numbering/naming is the one thing the USians got right.


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                                        peterchen wrote: As a German I find the street numbering/naming is the one thing the USians got right in older sections of cities and towns (anything over 30 years old :) ), things are usually pretty close to a grid (ex. my home town[^] of < 7,000 people). but our recent love affair with cul-de-sacs has made suburbia much more difficult (or at least much more unintuitive) to navigate (ex. my new town[^]). Image Toolkits | Image Processing | Cleek

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                                          peterchen wrote: As a German I find the street numbering/naming is the one thing the USians got right in older sections of cities and towns (anything over 30 years old :) ), things are usually pretty close to a grid (ex. my home town[^] of < 7,000 people). but our recent love affair with cul-de-sacs has made suburbia much more difficult (or at least much more unintuitive) to navigate (ex. my new town[^]). Image Toolkits | Image Processing | Cleek

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                                          Chris Losinger wrote: my new town My goodness, that looks like a bowl of meal worms! :omg:


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