Roadgeek Strengths and Weaknesses

[un1]

What states/countries are you smart at about roads or have been studying their roads? For example, say someone is smart at Texas but not New Mexico then their strength is Texas and their weakness is New Mexico.

For me, I am good at:
Ontario
New Brunswick
Iowa
Minnesota

I am studying:
United Kingdom
Quebec
Maine
Texas
New Jersey

I have barely any clue about:
California
New York
Virginia

[74/171FAN]

Obviously I'm great at Virginia and am well with North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, and Florida.  I'm fine with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware as well.  However, I'm horrible with Canadian roads.

[Bryant5493]

My strength is Georgia, as I'm a Georgia native. I've a little knowledge about Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and the Carolinas -- so, I'd say those are my lesser strengths. The rest of the country is my weakness.


Be well,

Bryant

[corco]

Okey doke- states and provinces ranked in order from strongest to weakest

I'm incredibly strong with (as in I essentially have a fully accurate map of the state highway system embedded into my brain):
1. Washington
2. Wyoming
3. Oregon
4. Idaho

I'm almost to that point with
5. Colorado
6. Utah
7. British Columbia
8. Nebraska (would be in the next category if it weren't for the bloody link and spur highways)

I really want to get to that point but have a few decent sized holes with
9. Montana
10. Iowa
11. Missouri
12. Arizona
13. New Mexico
14. South Dakota
15. North Dakota
16. Ohio

I've got strong general knowledge
17. Nevada
18. Illinois
19. Kansas
20. Alaska
21. California
22. Quebec
23. Alberta
24. Manitoba
25. Indiana
26. Ontario
27. Michigan
28. Sascatchewan
29. Yukon/NWT/Nunavut
30. Hawaii

A strong grasp of the US and Interstate highways with selective knowledge on the state highway system
31. New Hampshire
32. Kentucky
33. West Virginia
34. Oklahoma
35. Tennessee
36. Texas
37. The Atlantic Provinces + Newfoundland
38. Maine
39. Florida
40. Vermont
41. North Carolina
42. Louisiana
43. Arkansas
44. Mississippi
45. Massachusetts

Sketchy knowledge on the US and state highway systems, good interstate knowledge
46. Virginia
47. New York
48. Pennsyvlania
49. Georgia
50. South Carolina
51. Alabama

These states are too small and I have no idea what's going on and all knowledge is extrapolated from what I know about neighboring states
52. Rhode Island
53. Maryland
54. Delaware
55. Connecticut
56. New Jersey

I'm not really *studying* any state at o nce per se. I have my focus states (the top 8) and then am always trying to boost my knowledge of any of the other 48, but not in any particular sequence

(edited to include New York)

[njroadhorse]

Very Strong:
1. New Jersey
2. Pennsylvania
3. New York
4. Florida
5. Virginia

Decent:
1. Maryland
2. United Kingdom
3. Germany
4. Connecticut
5. North Carolina
6. California
7. Texas
8. Ohio

[Michael]

I live in Central New York, so I'm good in that area.  I have a broader knowledge elsewhere in the state.  I also know some about Pennsylvania because I go down US 15 and I-81 (not as often as US 15) on a semi-regular basis.

[akotchi]

Since I work in New Jersey, lived in Maryland, and currently live in Pennsylvania, I consider those three states to be my strongest (eastern Pa., anyway).  I generally make it a point to become familiar with the areas I have gone to in my travels, but I cannot claim anything more than working knowledge or passing interest in anywhere else.

[deathtopumpkins]

I'm good with VA and that's about it since it's where I live... though I'm not bad at the surrounding states and a few other random ones.

[Scott5114]

I know Oklahoma's road system quite well. I used to have people at work call out random numbers and I'd tell them where they are in the system. No mean feat considering how random OK's system is.

I know southwestern Missouri pretty well due to living in Springfield for a year. Don't know the rest of it too well, though. Also, I wish I knew Kansas better, since that's my grandma's state.

I know the UP better than I should–somehow I always end up reviewing UP articles on Wikipedia!

[Ian]

Strengths:
-All of New England
-New York
-New Jersey
-Pennsylvania
-Delaware
-Maryland

The rest I have trouble with.

[Tarkus]

Places I'm comfortable with:
-Oregon
-Washington
-California (parts of LA and extreme Northern California)

Places I'm somewhat familiar with:
-Idaho
-Maryland
-Montana
-Nevada
-Tennessee

Everywhere else, I have very little knowledge, but I could probably pick up quite easily with a little studying of maps.

-Alex (Tarkus)

[Michael]

I know Oklahoma's road system quite well. I used to have people at work call out random numbers and I'd tell them where they are in the system. No mean feat considering how random OK's system is.

I've thought of (or had my mother tell me) two random numbers, and I figure out where the routes meet.  I guess I'm not alone!

[Zezug]

Scott- well the UP only has 2 major east-west highways and a couple north south ones, it's not that hard to remember  really easy to not get lost in too

[ComputerGuy]

Super-Strength (my favs):

1. Washington
2. British Columbia
3. Oregon
4. Idaho
5. Hawaii
6. California
7. D.C.

Strenghts:

8. Montana
9. Minnesota
10. Michigan
11. New York
12. Arkansas
13. Alaska
14. Guam
15. U.S. Virgin Islands
16. Alberta
17. Northwest Territories
18. Nuvaut
19. Oklahoma
20. Texas
21. Utah
22. Maryland
23. Virigina

Working on:

24. Sascatchewan
25. Yukon
26. Nevada
27. Arizona
28. New Mexico
29. Colorado

No clue:

30. Neberaska
31. South Dakota
32. North Dakota
33. Wisconsin
34. Maine
35. Mass.
36. New Hampshire
37. Vermont
38. Conn.
39. Rhode Island
40. New Jersey
41. Pennsylvania
42. Ohio
43. Indiana
44. Ontario
45. Quebec
46. Montobia
47. New Brunswick
48. Newfoundland
49. Nova Scotia
50. Missouri
51. Louisiana
52. Florida
53. Georgia
54. Alabama
55. Tennesse
56. North Carolina
57. South Carolina
58. Kentucky
59. Illinois
60. Iowa
61. Kansas
62. Maryland
63. Deleware
64. West Virigina
65. Wyoming

[Alps]

Top strength is of course NJ.  It's the only one I have detailed knowledge about the history.
Strengths: QC, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, DE, MD, CT, HI
Average: FL, NC, VA, OH, CA, ON, NS
Not a clue: ID, MT, ND, SD, NE, NM, AR, MO, IA, MB, SK, AB

[SSOWorld]

Tops: WI
Strengths: MN, IA, IL (unfortunately  )
Average: MI, IN, MO, OK, ON,
No idea: everyone else

[Darkchylde]

My strengths would have to be Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Colorado. I can manage to get around Alabama and Florida decently enough, but without knowing every route in those states. Everything else, I'm a bit sketchy on.

[US71]

My strengths would be

1 Arkansas (!)
2 Missouri  (!)
3 Illinois (!)
4 Eastern Texas
5 Mississippi (mostly US 49/US 80/US 11 corridors)
6 Oklahoma (east of OKC, especially east of Tulsa)
7 Louisiana (so-so, mostly 71/49 corridor)
8 Tennessee (west of Jackson)

I know a little bit of Colorado & Nebraska, but not a lot

[Greybear]

My strengths would be:

1) Arkansas
2) Texas
3) Oklahoma
4) Parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa

Everywhere else, I'm still learning or slightly familiar with.

[Chris]

My interests comes in waves. There are some areas that are always interesting to me, mostly the United States, but sometimes I really dig into the Romanian road system, then the Spanish, then Japanese, then Russian, then Swiss, Danish, Polish etc.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

1. Minnesota

2. Wisconsin

3. Iowa

4-50. Everywhere else to varying degrees

[barcncpt44]

I have great knowledge of the roads in east alabama and west georgia since i am a fed ex driver and need to know the roads

I have good knowledge of roads in wyoming, montana, (akron, cleveland, hudson) ne ohio, western north and south dakota and nebraska, colorado, michigan, georgia, tennessee, and kentucky.  The rest of the country is just looking on google maps and earth and rand mcnally maps

[codyg1985]

I have knowledge about Alabama, especially north of I-20/59, southern Tennessee, Mississippi, and portions of Arkansas. Since I have lived in Alabama my whole life, though, Alabama is what I know best.

[adventurernumber1]

*everything is in order from strongest to weakest*

Top Strengths:
1. Georgia (I reside here and know the most about north Georgia and the Atlanta Metro Area)
2. Tennessee
3. Florida

Moderate Strengths:
1. Alabama
2. North Carolina
3. South Carolina
4. Virginia
5. West Virginia

Slightly Above Average:
1. Kentucky
2. Mississippi
3. Ohio
4. Pennsylvania
5. Maryland
6. Colorado

-most other US states at about average-

I know about H-1, H-2, H-3, & H-201 in Hawaii, but that's about it for it, and I know practically nothing about Alaska and any other country. But I do know about the Auto Bahn in Germany and I'm aware China has a pretty big freeway system or something like that.

[agentsteel53]

you just resurrected a five year old thread.

what the poop?