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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2023, 09:26:43 AM »

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2023, 06:17:51 PM »

It would appear that if I ever had a picture of a 25, it's gotten corrupted. So that's my answer. Guess I know what I'm doing next time I'm in Albuquerque.

Here's a 24 I took.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2023, 06:25:00 PM »

Here's my first one thousand, mostly a variety of different shield types and weird one-offs. There's a few at around the 600s where I had pick some minor county roads to fill the gaps, and Alabama is loaded with those. Driving around Virginia can help load up on secondary routes past the 600s.

Here's the next thousand, which is only a little over halfway complete, but I'm in no great hurry to complete it or pack it with County shields.

In case anyone is wondering, stumbling onto Jim Teresco's site gave me the idea, once I realized I had the first 220 numbers, and so I logged them in Excel. Number 929 was the one which was the last of the first thousand to complete, and 578 is the first one which is a county shield (I want to say 15-20 of them in the first thousand are strictly pentagons).


Am I correct in my assessment that your answer is 1060, then?
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #28 on: January 27, 2023, 06:29:46 PM »

I normally don't take sign photos, so my lowest is 1.

EDIT: Just browsed through my camera roll, turns out I've taken a photo of a BGS in Maine with US 1 on it, so it's 2 for me.

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #29 on: January 27, 2023, 06:32:34 PM »

Has anyone aside me thought that starting a new “take it yourself” shield photo game might be interesting?  I think it would be fun to start that over with the same rules given how many years have passed since the original challenge. 
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2023, 06:36:17 PM »

Here's my first one thousand, mostly a variety of different shield types and weird one-offs. There's a few at around the 600s where I had pick some minor county roads to fill the gaps, and Alabama is loaded with those. Driving around Virginia can help load up on secondary routes past the 600s.

Here's the next thousand, which is only a little over halfway complete, but I'm in no great hurry to complete it or pack it with County shields.

In case anyone is wondering, stumbling onto Jim Teresco's site gave me the idea, once I realized I had the first 220 numbers, and so I logged them in Excel. Number 929 was the one which was the last of the first thousand to complete, and 578 is the first one which is a county shield (I want to say 15-20 of them in the first thousand are strictly pentagons).


Am I correct in my assessment that your answer is 1060, then?

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2023, 06:42:41 PM »

Oh, duh, I didn't see that you posted that on page 1. I'm not awake yet, clearly. :P
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2023, 07:30:40 PM »

It would appear that if I ever had a picture of a 25, it's gotten corrupted. So that's my answer. Guess I know what I'm doing next time I'm in Albuquerque.

Here's a 24 I took.


You could get AR 25 on the way to Little Rock too lol
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2023, 07:58:50 PM »

Probably more likely to be in Albuquerque first than Little Rock, but I'll keep that in mind if I do head that way.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #34 on: January 29, 2023, 09:02:48 PM »

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2023, 07:47:57 PM »

Has anyone aside me thought that starting a new “take it yourself” shield photo game might be interesting?  I think it would be fun to start that over with the same rules given how many years have passed since the original challenge. 
Isn't that what the "Road Sign Uno" thread is for?
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #36 on: January 31, 2023, 08:06:59 PM »

Has anyone aside me thought that starting a new “take it yourself” shield photo game might be interesting?  I think it would be fun to start that over with the same rules given how many years have passed since the original challenge. 
Isn't that what the "Road Sign Uno" thread is for?

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2023, 01:19:20 AM »

Probably 1, I don't realy take road sign photos. I take a few if it's something cool, like my first (and so far only) time seeing a speed limit of 75 or higher in Northern Maine.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #38 on: February 27, 2023, 08:03:40 PM »

update lol



Lowest is now 153.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2023, 09:16:40 PM »

Is taking a picture of a county road better or worse than touching it? :D

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #40 on: February 27, 2023, 09:59:18 PM »

I don't have any pictures of any route 1, including Illinois Route 1, despite being so close to it. I just don't go out of the way to take pictures of roads I'm normally on.

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2023, 01:51:02 PM »

Scott5114, you missed my entry of 1 upthread in your table
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #42 on: February 28, 2023, 09:57:16 PM »

All the 1s...

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #43 on: March 02, 2023, 10:11:40 PM »

It took me a while to compile the evidence, but my number is 268.  I have a photo for at least one route having every number from 1 to 267.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmrw3Mb2

Edit: I made a list of route markers showing one example of each route number I've photographed, below. Click for full view.


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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #44 on: March 03, 2023, 08:52:32 PM »

I munched through my filelist output, as suggested by Scott5114. (Anything to put off doing my tax returns, huh?) My lowest route number with no picture seems to be 282. While I've clinched CA 282 in the San Diego area, I took no photos.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2023, 01:01:53 AM »

Found an Ind 26 and various US 27 shields.
Now I'm at 28.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #46 on: March 04, 2023, 05:52:51 AM »

Some new rows up at the top of the table. Wonder if Oscar intends to make a run for the very top of this one too?  :D

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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #47 on: March 04, 2023, 07:28:47 AM »

Some new rows up at the top of the table. Wonder if Oscar intends to make a run for the very top of this one too?  :D

Nope. formulanone has a lock on the top spot, especially since my route marker photos really thin out over 500. I'll settle for jousting with Jim and paulthemapguy for second place.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #48 on: March 19, 2023, 12:09:40 AM »

After some travel in Kentucky, my lowest route number with no picture is now 443.

I'm not home yet, so I might snag a 443 if I travel far enough south (the cold weather seems to be following me, so heading south might be an exercise in futility). Also, I have several months' worth of photos from late 2021 and early 2022 that I haven't yet processed, that might fill some of the many gaps in my coverage of the high 400s.
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Re: Lowest numbered route you don't have a picture of
« Reply #49 on: March 22, 2023, 07:52:13 AM »

After some travel in Kentucky, my lowest route number with no picture is now 443.

I'm not home yet, so I might snag a 443 if I travel far enough south

Which I did yesterday. My new lowest route number with no picture is 482.
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