On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:45 PM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:35 PM Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:48 PM Joseph Eisenberg < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Here in Indonesia it is very common for neighbors to build sign over >>> the main entrance to their neighborhood, with the name of the >>> neighborhood on top and some other info on the two columns supporting >>> the sign. >>> >> >> For all the examples you give, they're not very useful as signs in terms >> of giving directions, and they have a more ceremonial role. I wonder if >> what we're dealing with isn't a public sculpture. >> > > I can only speak of Tulsa and Portland examples as those are the two > metros where I've seen these most prolifically, though if you look on the > back of many stop signs or the left side of the street after an > intersection at the edge of a district (neighborhood), there will be a > round sign (probably using a blank W10-1) with the district's logo. These > signs line the perimeter of the district, making it possible to form the > administrative boundary of the district. > Interesting, but not exactly the ceremonial gateway to a neighbourhood. Where I grew up, there are a lot of ceremonial gateposts, but less elaborate, more like what you see in https://goo.gl/maps/uCT5EAEjGCn . Come to think of it, the subdivision where I live now still has a couple of its signs https://goo.gl/maps/F2YG14g1jfr. There was one village near where I grew up that had actual, functioning gates on the roads going in and out - for an unknown reason, it wasn't a gated community. They're long gone, but you can see where they were in spots like https://goo.gl/maps/PsuvSPU9Pj72 . I've not mapped any of these gateways; the most I've done is to map the boundary of the subdivision and tag it landuse=residential name=Orchard Park Georgia puts its county road numbers inconspicuously on vertical green signs - shaped a lot like many states' mileposts, and maybe they are painted on the same stock as their freeway mileposts - on the back of STOP signs. But I still think that the gateways that Joseph describes are most likely public sculptures rather than useful boundary markers - particularly if they are unofficial and erected by the residents.
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