[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[Ah Pook]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 2:27 pm, sixtyfourbeets wrote:
> > My biggest problem with travelling by any surface vehicle in the US
> > is the fact that your signs are just awful. Crap in fact.
>
> Thats pure baloney, I've driven across the US numerous times into
> destinations I have never been to
> and the signs are actually far more straightforward than I gave them
> credit for. Very often I gave the signs more credit than they
> deserved in terms of being complicated and as
> a result got lost because I thought I knew better than the sign.

One of my favourite memories of Cuba is driving down the highway and 
seeing a big sign frame - it obviously signified something, once, but 
no sign remained, just the frame.  But that was OK, because there was a 
guy standing there available to provide directions.

US signs are certainly crap though, with NY being among the worst.  Part 
of that is because there are just so many of them, and the "system" 
seems to be to just add new ones rather than any kind of cleanup.