Daily Picture Challenge!

[US71]

March 24, 2017 Post a 2-digit Interstate shield with three or more digits in it.

Greenland, AR


Shreveport, LA


St Louis, MO (eight digits)

[Eth]

March 24, 2017 Post a 2-digit Interstate shield with three or more digits in it.

It seems they've been nearly exterminated in the Atlanta area; the only one I could find in my collection is at the north end of I-575:

[Ian]

March 24, 2017 Post a 2-digit Interstate shield with three or more digits in it.

CA 60 westbound approaching I-215 near Moreno Valley, CA.



The famous I-95/I-295 guide sign under L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, DC.



I-295 shield along ME 88 in Yarmouth, ME.

[paulthemapguy]

March 24, 2017 Post a 2-digit Interstate shield with three or more digits in it.

The southern end marker on I-172.


IMG_1584 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[wanderer2575]

March 24, 2017 Post a 2-digit Interstate shield with three or more digits in it.

[Jim]

After midnight in the east, so I think I get to post a challenge.

March 25, 2017: Post pictures signage for a continental divide or similar.

I figure that the Atlantic-Pacific divide is very well signed and will be easily covered.  So I'll go with some lesser known ones.

The eastern continental divide on I-40 in North Carolina.  May 22, 2005.



Hudson/St. Lawrence divide on NY 30 and NY 28 in Blue Mountain Lake.  April 25, 2009.



North-South continental divide on US 20 and US 31 near South Bend, Indiana.  June 27, 2012.

[hbelkins]

US 33 between Elkins and Seneca Rocks, WV.

2016 Corridor H Meet Trip Day 2-54 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[Jim]

March 25, 2017: Post pictures signage for a continental divide or similar.

I guess I was wrong that Atlantic/Pacific continental divide was an easy one.  So I'll try to keep my first attempt at posting a challenge from being a total failure by putting up a few more of my own.

US 550 near Cuba, New Mexico.  February 7, 2004.



I-90 in Montana.  June 27, 2001.



US 6 at Loveland Pass, Colorado.  April 13, 2002.

[hotdogPi]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

[US71]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

Do you have an example?

[paulthemapguy]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

Holy christ I was going to make this the challenge for today.  I actually had the exact same idea...but I didn't post it because I couldn't find any photos of my own to fit this criterion.  The most I found was 8 of the 10 digits.

[wanderer2575]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

The "8" is in the phone number on the back of the van in the left lane.  I got lucky on this one; I have several photos of Kansas City gantries where the route shields contain all the digits except "8."

[Jim]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

Burgess Junction, Wyoming.  July 25, 1999.  This is the best quality I have, but not bad considering it came from my first digital camera, the Sony Mavica FD-7, that only took pictures at 640x480.

[Jim]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

15 minutes of poking around for another and I came up with probably 8 or 10 examples where I had 9 out of 10, and too many to count with 8 out of 10.  But other than Burgess Junction, I didn't track down any others that satisfy the challenge.

Kansas City would probably yield examples if they had sequential exit numbers so there would be an Exit 8 in the middle of the area where all those roads meet.  Maybe something other than I-70 through there has an exit number with an 8 in it.

[formulanone]

March 26 challenge: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.

Do you have an example?

There's 9 different numerals on the shields, and the missing "8" can be found on the hurricane evacuation sign:



Now "1" has to post an actual road photo.

[jbnv]

March 27, 2017 Stretch or squeeze that text!


Stretch that text! by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr


Squeezed text by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[US71]

March 27, 2017 Stretch or squeeze that text!

Best I can do

[paulthemapguy]

March 28th challenge:  Post a pair of routes that differ by a factor of 15.  In other words, post two routes "a" and "b" where a×15=b.

(This should be easier if a is a small number like 1 or 2)


OH-US20-300W by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[Eth]

March 28th challenge:  Post a pair of routes that differ by a factor of 15.  In other words, post two routes "a" and "b" where a×15=b.

5 × 15 = 75 in Marietta, GA:



19 × 15 = 285 in Sandy Springs, GA:

[empirestate]

It's monthly re-cap time again!

The Challenge for March 29, 2017 is to submit for any Challenges posted since the previous re-cap. So all Challenges starting on February 28th are open, up to and including the end of March (and new Challenges will be posted on March 30 and 31). Please remember to quote the Challenge you are submitting for!

Perhaps I'll compile the list of Challenges in the morning, unless anyone beats me to it.

[formulanone]

March 17th:  Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Post photos of official signs containing any green-colored text.

(this also suffices the missing pi-day challenge)

[paulthemapguy]

March 28th challenge:  Post a pair of routes that differ by a factor of 15.  In other words, post two routes "a" and "b" where a×15=b.

10×15=150


IL-010-US150e by Paul Drives, on Flickr

6×15=90


IN-051-I-80JCT by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

February 28, 2017: Ground-level photos containing the entirety of some route within the frame.
March 1, 2017: Photos of parade routes painted or otherwise marked on a road surface.
March 2, 2017: Photos that show one or more traffic lights that are in the yellow phase at the time of the photo. It must be a full traffic light; flashing yellow alone does not count.
March 3, 2017: Signage photos that feature a county court house (or civic building of equivalent stature and function).
March 4, 2017: Photos of city streets that aren't there anymore, yet somehow are totally still there.
March 5, 2017: A road sign or group of side-by-side signs with both BEGIN(S) and END(S).
March 6, 2017: A sign assembly that uses both large and small-issue route shields adjacent to each other (e.g. 24x24 shields next to 36x36 shields).
March 7, 2017: Route sign photos of the highest-numbered state highway in a particular state.
March 8, 2017: A photo that contains a road sign found in the previous photo. If a photo satisfies both this challenge and the ongoing March 7 challenge, it counts for both.
March 9, 2017: A photo that shows a route marker assembly with an Interstate marker, a US route marker and a state primary route marker.
March 10, 2017: Official road signs that contain your own name, or some part of it (first, last, and/or middle).
March 11, 2017: Road photos that contain words in them that could get censored, e.g. Massachusetts, circumferential, shell, Dick's Sporting Goods.
March 12, 2017: Signs of an otherwise-standard design that have been graphically altered to suit their particular setting.
March 13, 2017: Signs that have been crammed into a location where space is very tight.
March 14, 2017: Warning signs showing an intersection with an unusual configuration.
March 15, 2017: Official signs that aren't mounted and standing (e.g., damaged/blown over, or being installed, transported or stored). Looking for signs "in the wild" only–no private home collections, businesses, museums etc.
March 16, 2017: Signs on the same assembly that should be identical, but aren't. Examples are different fonts, different sign sizes or shapes, or assemblies where one sign is in error.
March 17, 2017: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Photos of official signs containing any green-colored text.
March 18, 2017: Photos of surface streets that have four or more lanes in a single direction (OR both directions).
March 19, 2017: Three or more different route shields shown, but no US or Interstate shields in the photo. The background is considered to be part of the photo.
March 20, 2017: Photos of exit-style signage which only contain a business name.
March 21, 2017: In honor of the second day of spring , post any sign photos with the word "spring."
March 22, 2017: Signs/installations that denote two or more political boundaries (cities, townships, counties, states, international lines, etc.)
March 23, 2017: March Madness! Post a road photo that contains the name of a university that made it to the Sweet 16 in Men's and/or Women's March Madness. As is normal with college sports, "University of", etc. can be ignored.  No duplicates; once one university name is given, do not give that name again.
March 24, 2017: 2-digit Interstate shields with three or more digits in it.
March 25, 2017: Pictures of signage for a continental divide or similar.
March 26, 2017: Road photos that contain all 10 digits: 0123456789.
March 27, 2017: Stretch or squeeze that text!
March 28, 2017: Pictures of a pair of routes that differ by a factor of 15. In other words, post two routes "a" and "b" where a×15=b.

[MNHighwayMan]

March 7, 2017: Route sign photos of the highest-numbered state highway in a particular state.

Although I posted a picture of a Coralville street blade with an IA-965 (a supposedly unsigned route) shield on it, IA-471 is the highest-numbered route signed by the DOT. I got pictures of it yesterday; here's one:

[Michael]

March 27, 2017 Stretch or squeeze that text!

With all of the awful road signs out there, I'm surprised that there was only one reply to this challenge.  I was waiting to see if anyone would reply, but I didn't see anything all day.  When I opened the thread the following day, I saw the one reply that was posted, so I couldn't reply.

Anyway, there's a few stretched signs on Centro's Auburn-Syracuse bus route that I sometimes ride.  To start, here's a pair of right-side and left-side stop signs with stretched "ALL WAY" plaques.  Closer to Syracuse, there's this sign for Shove Park.  There's also a stretched "State Law" sign nearby, but it wasn't there when the Street View car went by.