Daily Picture Challenge!

[hotdogPi]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

Or village, township, etc.

MA 16 east at MA 28 by Paul Revere, on Flickr

Reading and Revere.

[empirestate]

Yep. Though it is preferred to embed the GSV image within your post, not just the link.

I suggest adding that to your OP then. I've been doing it because it makes the challenge entry easier to view on mobile, and also just in case Google decides to break their old links for the sake of "progress."

Good idea. Everybody, please see the revised rule #5:

5. Pictures can be from any source to which you have access. Google Street View is allowed, unless specifically prohibited for a particular day's Challenge. Pictures must appear inline within your post, not as an off-site URL, and must conform to forum size limits.

[Jim]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

"Wind", "Gap", and "Bath" are all words, though I suppose "Wind Gap" is really a single place with a name made of two words.  I'll hold off on posting others like this until 1 can state if this is in the spirit of the challenge or not.

From Pennsylvania 33.  May 20, 2005.

[hotdogPi]

Single words only. I got this challenge idea from the "place names you can play in Scrabble" thread.

[oscar]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

Recycling this photo from the "Twelve Days of Christmas" challenge: out-of-focus distance sign has Chicken, Boundary, and Eagle:

[Hurricane Rex]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

Bend/Sisters in the Cascades


Sweet Home is a bonus but is not the official post of mine.

[csw]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

English and Sulphur, along I-64 EB in southern Indiana:



..and about 30 miles west of that, Jasper and Dale, also along I-64 EB:

[paulthemapguy]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

Phoenix and Globe are words.


AZ-101-US60SA1 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Jay and Century


FL-004-087WR by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[AsphaltPlanet]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

Welcome, Port, Hope

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_dv_461_east_Jun15_24x16.jpg

[US71]

Most names are words. So can you qualify this?

[hotdogPi]

Most names are words. So can you qualify this?

Words that have a definition other than a proper noun. I would say "valid in Scrabble", but there are some obscure words that aren't included in the Scrabble dictionary. English unless the local language is something else.

[Truvelo]

Three words here, four if bell with a single L is a word which I doubt.

[hotdogPi]

Three words here, four if bell with a single L is a word which I doubt.

Those are not four cities named Bel, Air, Forest, and Hill, though.

[PHLBOS]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

Phoenix and Globe are words.


AZ-101-US60SA1 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

What font is that for the control cities/legends?  Series F?

[empirestate]

Most names are words. So can you qualify this?

Words that have a definition other than a proper noun. I would say "valid in Scrabble", but there are some obscure words that aren't included in the Scrabble dictionary. English unless the local language is something else.

Does the definition have to be something other than that from which the proper noun is derived? For example, if a town located at the top of a hill is named "Pinnacle", "Apex" or "Summit", does that qualify? Or does it have to be something like "Reading", which doesn't at all derive from the sense of "reading" a book?

[Jim]

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

This one should be valid.  Orange and Barre (as in the thing they use in ballet).  US 202 in New Salem, Massachusetts.  August 6, 2010.

[hotdogPi]

Most names are words. So can you qualify this?

Words that have a definition other than a proper noun. I would say "valid in Scrabble", but there are some obscure words that aren't included in the Scrabble dictionary. English unless the local language is something else.

Does the definition have to be something other than that from which the proper noun is derived? For example, if a town located at the top of a hill is named "Pinnacle", "Apex" or "Summit", does that qualify? Or does it have to be something like "Reading", which doesn't at all derive from the sense of "reading" a book?

Pinnacle, Apex, and Summit qualify.

[kphoger]

Just because US71 didn't get upset enough already with the previous challenge...

January 12, 2018: Photos with at least two city/town names that are words.

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Single words only.

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[US71]

I checked the original challenge: it did not say "single words". It was modified later after Wind Gap was posted.

I have removed my post to satisfy the powers that be, but changing the rules after someone posts would, IMO,  invalidate the challenge

[empirestate]

I checked the original challenge: it did not say "single words". It was modified later after Wind Gap was posted.

I have removed my post to satisfy the powers that be, but changing the rules after someone posts would, IMO,  invalidate the challenge

Yeah, any rules/caveats/restrictions should appear in the initial post, either in the Challenge statement itself or listed after it. The only thing that was added to this one was "or village, township, etc."–which I took to mean that only organized municipalities and civil divisions were allowed (not unincorporated places).

(If we're quite strict about it, the Challenge didn't even specify "words with meanings other than as proper nouns"–all it actually said was "words".)

[paulthemapguy]

If you want people to follow a certain guideline, be clear about it in the original post.  Otherwise it's pointless to expect others to do what you had in mind.  That's like going up to the counter at Burger King, saying "I don't care" when they ask you for your order, then being disappointed when they give you a fish sandwich.  You can't predict for every gray area, but try and account for instances of ambiguity early on, when a challenge is issued.  I mean, how are we going to keep up with all the times the goal posts were shifted, if the challenge only lasts a single day? 

[oscar]

The only thing that was added to this one was "or village, township, etc."–which I took to mean that only organized municipalities and civil divisions were allowed (not unincorporated places).

I took that to include but not necessarily limited to incorporated places. "etc." supports an expansive interpretation.

Of the three places in my post for this Challenge, one is a city, one is an unincorporated village, and the third is basically a wide spot in the road.

[hotdogPi]

January 14, 2018: Two or more state routes with inconsistent shield types, other than differences solely due to number of digits.

MA 125 at NH 121 by Not Marf, on Flickr

125 is normal; 121 doesn't even have a shield. Even if 121 did have a shield, it would still qualify, as MA 125 and NH 121 are different shield types.

East end of MA 40 by UMass Lowell Student, on Flickr

3A has a black border around it; 40 does not.

MA 110 and 150, Amesbury by me, on Flickr

The 150 shield is smaller than the 110 shield. Sorry about the quality; iPhone photos are 3000x4000 if not zoomed in, but I had to zoom in and then crop it (I was on a bus).

[MNHighwayMan]

January 14, 2018: Two or more state routes with inconsistent shield types, other than differences solely due to number of digits.

Two 3-digit Minnesota shields, one square and one wide:



And the same thing again, but in Iowa:

[US71]

January 14, 2018: Two or more state routes with inconsistent shield types, other than differences solely due to number of digits.

I believe this qualifies. 2d-style 126 / 3d-style 178 near Midway, AR  126 is usually a 3d style shield