Signs in one state about exits, or state highways for another state; BGS

[Dr Frankenstein]

Re: Street View in Germany

There used to be none at all for a long time; they've just started adding the country. I suppose we'll get country-wide coverage by next year.

[J N Winkler]

Re: Street View in Germany

There used to be none at all for a long time; they've just started adding the country. I suppose we'll get country-wide coverage by next year.

Are you sure about that?  The PC Magazine article NE2 linked to says that Google was (as of April 2011) abandoning plans to add further StreetView imagery for Germany.  I checked the Wikipedia article on StreetView and it contains no mention of that decision being revisited, as happened in the otherwise similar case of Australia.

[hbelkins]

On MD 135, signage for WV 46.



On WV 62 at Mason. (This is at the bridge that replaced the old US 33 bridge).



On OH 7 at Proctorville. (I have photos across the river in Huntington with OH 7 signage on US 60).

[Alps]

Spied this weekend, JCT VT 102 signed on the NH side of US 2.

[PurdueBill]

As I recall (and hope wasn't mentioned upthread and I missed it), INDOT has a sign for the first exit northbound on US 41 placed in Kentucky (in the small area of Kentucky on the north side of the river).  It's one of the few button copy signs in Kentucky, a nice full overhead to boot.  Interestingly, when I was down there a couple weeks ago, it seemed that the first sign in Indiana for the same exit was not button copy anymore!

[english si]

Interestingly enough, you can't continue into Germany on Street View. In fact, there appears to be no Street View in Germany at all. Does it violate German privacy law?

There's some in the bigger cities, about what it was like in the US when they started.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383363,00.asp

They started. There was a lawsuit. They stopped collecting data. The End.

[Brandon]

Interestingly enough, you can't continue into Germany on Street View. In fact, there appears to be no Street View in Germany at all. Does it violate German privacy law?

There's some in the bigger cities, about what it was like in the US when they started.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383363,00.asp

They started. There was a lawsuit. They stopped collecting data. The End.

Why would there be a lawsuit?  It's photography on a public road, or am I missing some quirk in German law that is missing in French and UK law (which are extensively photographed by Google)?

[hbelkins]

As I recall (and hope wasn't mentioned upthread and I missed it), INDOT has a sign for the first exit northbound on US 41 placed in Kentucky (in the small area of Kentucky on the north side of the river).  It's one of the few button copy signs in Kentucky, a nice full overhead to boot.  Interestingly, when I was down there a couple weeks ago, it seemed that the first sign in Indiana for the same exit was not button copy anymore!

AFAIK it is the ONLY button copy left in Kentucky.

[agentsteel53]

AFAIK it is the ONLY button copy left in Kentucky.

I feel like there is something similar surviving for a WV route.

[hbelkins]

Not that I've seen, and I've crossed every crossing multiple times except the bridge from Pike County, Ky., to Vulcan, WV. There used to be some button copy just across the border at the US 119/US 52 intersection, but that was fully on the east side of the river and has been replaced with Clearview. None survives at either of the other two crossings between Williamson, WV and South Williamson, KY.

[agentsteel53]

Not that I've seen, and I've crossed every crossing multiple times except the bridge from Pike County, Ky., to Vulcan, WV. There used to be some button copy just across the border at the US 119/US 52 intersection, but that was fully on the east side of the river and has been replaced with Clearview. None survives at either of the other two crossings between Williamson, WV and South Williamson, KY.

I was misremembering.  it was Virginia, on I-77 north, that had WV-installed button copy.

I don't think VA ever used button copy... in any case, as of 2010, it is the only button copy I know of in that state. 

[hbelkins]

I was misremembering.  it was Virginia, on I-77 north, that had WV-installed button copy.

And I'm not sure, but I think it's gone too. Although last time I crossed the state line going north, it was on VA/WV 598 and not I-77.

[roadman]

Didn't see this one previously mentioned.

On I-93 SB in Salem, NH, a 1 mile overhead BGS for MA 213 was recently installed.  The sign and support are MassDOT spec and were installed by MassDOT's contractor as part of the I-93 Wilmington to Methuen sign replacements.

[Zeffy]

Sign referencing NJ 90 on I-95 in Philadelphia:

http://goo.gl/maps/GhoFi

They were even nice enough to include the back background behind the shield!

[roadman65]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Keene,+NH&hl=en&ll=43.649414,-72.310338&spn=0.005978,0.015278&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=7.407541,15.644531&oq=keene+nh&t=h&hnear=Keene,+Cheshire,+New+Hampshire&layer=c&cbll=43.64922,-72.310373&panoid=4owts45eOpTyGL9C8RG2UQ&cbp=12,45,,1,0&z=16
VT 14 makes a mention in Lebanon, NH.

[deathtopumpkins]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Keene,+NH&hl=en&ll=43.649414,-72.310338&spn=0.005978,0.015278&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=7.407541,15.644531&oq=keene+nh&t=h&hnear=Keene,+Cheshire,+New+Hampshire&layer=c&cbll=43.64922,-72.310373&panoid=4owts45eOpTyGL9C8RG2UQ&cbp=12,45,,1,0&z=16
VT 14 makes a mention in Lebanon, NH.

We actually stopped right by there at the Lebanon road meet a few weeks ago.

[hotdogPi]

http://goo.gl/maps/ILISI

This sign is incorrect, since it should be a NH 121A sign, not a MA 121A sign.

Go north 2 steps and you will see a NH 121A reassurance shield despite still being in Massachusetts.

[roadman65]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Marshalls+Creek,+PA&hl=en&ll=40.961655,-75.117152&spn=0.000016,0.009871&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=10.745619,20.214844&oq=marshalls+cr&hnear=Marshalls+Creek,+Monroe,+Pennsylvania&t=k&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.961738,-75.117158&panoid=fmHip6As72hTEjL2B3pT6A&cbp=12,33.59,,0,0
A PA Exit 310 for I-80 in New Jersey.

[ethanhopkin14]

This isn't a BGS but still interesting just the same.  This shield assembly is on State Line Road in Texarkana facing southbound north of the Interstate 30 diamond interchange. The shield on the right points to westbound Interstate 30 and is made to TxDOT standards since Texas is on the right of the picture.  The shield on the left says if you go over the bridge and turn left you are on eastbound Interstate 30, and that shield is made to AHDT standards as well since Arkansas is on the left.

[roadman65]

There is the infamous AR 43 & OK 20 two state route duplex on the AR- OK State Line.

[mapman1071]

ON AZ 95 Bullhead City, AZ BGS at Bullhead Parkway and BGS at midbridge on Laughlin-Bullhead City Bridge NV 163
Needles, CA ADOT BGS for AZ 95 ON Business I-40/Historic US 66

[Road Hog]

This isn't a BGS but still interesting just the same.  This shield assembly is on State Line Road in Texarkana facing southbound north of the Interstate 30 diamond interchange. The shield on the right points to westbound Interstate 30 and is made to TxDOT standards since Texas is on the right of the picture.  The shield on the left says if you go over the bridge and turn left you are on eastbound Interstate 30, and that shield is made to AHDT standards as well since Arkansas is on the left.

You see examples of this all up and down US 71 as it straddles the state line more or less.

[Brandon]

IDOT for Missouri.



MoDOT for Missouri, in Illinois.



The only one arrow per lane signs in Illinois were not installed by IDOT or ISTHA.

Plus, MoDOT has a VMS in Illinois.

[Indyroads]

One lane for the mainline (through) interstate designation, because that makes total sense.

[NE2]

It's a two-lane ramp: http://www.flickr.com/photos/missriverbridge/12777474404/sizes/o/
Either the second lane begins along the bridge or they cocked up the sign. Given that the right lane appears to enter from IL 3, I'm going with cockup.