Daily Picture Challenge!

[Jim]

Not sure the intent of the challenge, but I know when I came up with my entry, I was careful to avoid things like a distance of "1/4" or an exit number that included a 1.

[hotdogPi]

Not sure the intent of the challenge, but I know when I came up with my entry, I was careful to avoid things like a distance of "1/4" or an exit number that included a 1.

Yes, those need to be avoided, too.

[MNHighwayMan]

February 25, 2018: 1 is the most common digit. Post road signs/assemblies (either is allowed) containing at least 5 different digits and no 1s.

This challenge was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be.

[mrpablue]

February 25, 2018: 1 is the most common digit. Post road signs/assemblies (either is allowed) containing at least 5 different digits and no 1s.

[Eth]

February 25, 2018: 1 is the most common digit. Post road signs/assemblies (either is allowed) containing at least 5 different digits and no 1s.

Six digits, including the exit tab.

[empirestate]

February 26, 2018

It's monthly recap time again!

All Challenges posted since the last recap (Jan. 29th) are now open through the end of February. This serves as the Challenge for February 26th; new Challenges will also be posted on the 27th and 28th.

(And we're up to, what, New Jersey for the states?)

[MNHighwayMan]

January 31st: Purple road signs.
February 1st: It's 2-1. Highway blackjack.  Post the highway numbered 1 through 10, that is closest to the center of the city where you live.  Whichever group of people gets closest to 21 without exceeding it wins!
2nd: Pictures of roads or highways as they traverse rolling hills - mountains are not included for this challenge - only rolling hills and Piedmont.
3rd: State Highway 3 is the longest state highway in Oklahoma. Post photos of the longest state highway in your state.
4th: Super Bowl! Throughout the day, you can post a photo with two numbers (they don't have to be route numbers) corresponding to the final scores of any completed Super Bowl. However, during the Super Bowl, you can also post numbers corresponding to the current score.
8th: Today (ignoring time zone differences) is the start of the Winter Olympics (even though the opening ceremony is tomorrow). One of the events today is curling. Post photos of road signs that are curled.
9th: Any sign with picnic table or otherwise signifying a picnic area.
10th: A photo of the nearest non-Interstate highway to where you live.
11th: Road signs with something (other than damage or vandalism) added on after it was created.
12th: A picture of a hand drawn road or map.
13th: A road photo from any location where the Olympic Games have taken place.
14th: It's Ash Wednesday.  Post pictures of signs containing forms of the word "ash."
15th: A picture from the smallest county in a state.
16th: Road photos from Scandinavia and the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and their dependencies).
20th: Before and after! Post two pictures, taken in (about) the same spot and in the same direction, of signs where the second picture has more, different, and/or fewer route numbers on the road than in the first picture.
21st: Road photos from the Caribbean island countries and territories.
22nd: Traffic signals that are NOT pole/mast-mounted or hung on wire spans.
23rd: Pictures of 2 speed limit signs posted. Like my example, Oregon's Speed xx signs are allowed but not minimums or truck limits.
25th: 1 is the most common digit. Post road signs/assemblies (either is allowed) containing at least 5 different digits and no 1s.

There were no challenges posted for January 29th and 30th, and February 5th, 6th, 7th, 17th, 18th, 19th, or 24th.

As empirestate correctly stated, the state challenge, from January 19th, is currently on New Jersey.

[Jim]

For the 2/13 Olympic challenge:

This one's a 2-for-1 in a sense.  It's taken in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany (Winter 1936), and directs to Munich, Germany (Summer 1972).  Taken February 16, 2007.



2-for-1 in the same sense.  Taken in Innsbruck, Austria (Winter 1964 and 1976), directing to Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany (Winter 1936).  Taken February 16, 2007.



And one more like that.  Taken just outside Munich, Germany (Summer 1972), directing to Innsbruck, Austria (Winter 1964 and 1976).  Taken February 12, 2007.

[oscar]

February 20, 2018: Before and after! Post two pictures, taken in (about) the same spot and in the same direction, of signs where the second picture has more, different, and/or fewer route numbers on the road than in the first picture.

Here's a pair from Hawaii's Interstate H-1, the first taken in 2001, the second in 2009.





The second photo has the H1 marker that fell off the earlier version, and also replaces the HI 90 marker with the correct HI 99 marker. It only took Hawaii DOT about two decades, after HI 90 was decommissioned and the part passing by the Arizona Memorial renumbered to HI 99, to fix the sign-o.

The more consequential change was that "Pearl Harbor" was replaced with "Naval Base". Too many tourists who wanted to see Pearl Harbor instead encountered the military sentries guarding the base's main entrance. Once you've taken the exit, there's only one easy-to-miss turnoff before the naval base entrance, and no U-turn opportunities.

[oscar]

February 15th: Post a picture from the smallest county in a state.

From Hawaii's tiny Kalawao County, I took lots of photos on my visit in 1999, most of them relating to now-Saint Damien (one of two saints from that county). Here's the most road-related one within the county (not counting the infamous "unwelcome" signs at the county line), showing the dirt road heading back from Kalawao Cove to Kalaupapa village:



From Alaska, the main street in Skagway municipality (smallest borough in land area, but not in population -- I also have photos from the least-populous borough Yakutat):

[Jim]

For lots of the digits but no 1's challenge:

0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.  Taken at a turnout on the north side of the Muskwa River Bridge on the Alaska Highway, just south of Fort Nelson.  June 12, 2001.



2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9.  Near Wilson, North Carolina.  November 14, 2010.



Took some work, but I found one with 7 of the 9 allowable digits: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.  I-695 in Maryland.  March 21, 2007.

[mrpablue]

CHALLENGE: February 10, 2018.

[wanderer2575]

3rd: State Highway 3 is the longest state highway in Oklahoma. Post photos of the longest state highway in your state.

9th: Any sign with picnic table or otherwise signifying a picnic area.

Ionia County, MI:

[empirestate]

February 27, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos from Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Timor-Leste, and Indochina).

[paulthemapguy]

Indochina has a fresh new name, I'll have ya know.  And what about Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos?

[empirestate]

Indochina has a fresh new name, I'll have ya know.  And what about Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos?

If my choice of terminology didn't answer, then I'll let you participate according to your own guidelines.

[formulanone]

February 27, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos from Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Timor-Leste, and Indochina).

Thai Highway 4 with Highway 3087; part of Asian Highway 2 - credit to Ahoerstemeier at Wikipedia:

February 15th: A picture from the smallest county in a state.

They don't get much smaller (in population) than Loving County, Texas:

4th: Super Bowl! Throughout the day, you can post a photo with two numbers corresponding to the final scores of any completed Super Bowl.

Super Bowl XXIII: 49ers 55 - Broncos 10 (but it wasn't played in Louisiana, but in Miami)

[US71]

Indochina has a fresh new name, I'll have ya know.  And what about Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos?

(per wikipedia)

Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia. The name refers to the lands historically within the cultural influence of India and China, and physically bound by the Indian Subcontinent in the west and China in the north. It corresponds to the present-day areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and (variably) peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. The term was later adopted as the name of the colony of French Indochina (today's Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), and the entire area of Indochina is now usually referred to as the Indochinese Peninsula or Mainland Southeast Asia.

[Truvelo]

9th: Any sign with picnic table or otherwise signifying a picnic area.

[jflick99]

15th: A picture from the smallest county in a state

This was based on area, right? If so, this is from Wyandotte County, KS, approaching I-35 at the southern terminus of I-635.

25th: 1 is the most common digit. Post road signs/assemblies (either is allowed) containing at least 5 different digits and no 1s.

This is the same interchange, but going north toward the county line. I'm using the 30 MPH sign on the side as well.

[paulthemapguy]

15th: A picture from the smallest county in a state

Davis County, UT:


UT-108-126W by Paul Drives, on Flickr

San Juan County, WA:


WA-Friday_HarborV1 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Sagadohoc County, ME:


IMG_2376 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[adventurernumber1]

February 2nd Challenge ---> Post pictures of roads or highways as they traverse rolling hills - mountains are not included for this challenge - only rolling hills and Piedmont:

This is from off of Interstate 20 Eastbound in Georgia in between Lake Oconee and the town of Greensboro:




This is from off of Interstate 20 Eastbound just southeast of Crawfordville, Georgia:




This is from off of Interstate 20 Eastbound just southwest of Lexington, South Carolina:

[adventurernumber1]

February 2nd Challenge ---> Post pictures of roads or highways as they traverse rolling hills - mountains are not included for this challenge - only rolling hills and Piedmont:

This is from off of Interstate 26 Eastbound just north of Orangeburg, South Carolina:

Feb 12, 2018:
Post a picture of a hand drawn road or map. I know it is like, 10:00 on the east coast, but, here is a challenge for today.

I actually have an entire thread on here from a few years ago where I did just that. Here are a couple:

-Disclaimer: I can make much higher quality maps of these sort nowadays, so disregard the cringe..   


My interstate/city map of Georgia:




My road map of Chattanooga, Tennessee:

[oscar]

February 15th: A picture from the smallest county in a state

In addition to the Hawaii and Alaska photos I posted earlier, closer to home there's Falls Church VA (an independent city usually treated as a county equivalent, covering only 2.1 square miles -- fortunately, because it's all a speed trap):



This sign assembly, alas, was later replaced by a stupid "Arts in the Little City" banner.

If you insist on the smallest actual county in Virginia, I live there (Arlington County, right next to Falls Church) and have photos available.

[adventurernumber1]

February 10, 2018: Post a photo of the nearest non-Interstate highway to where you live.

I've taken a million pictures of Georgia Highway 52 (as it is the closest non-interstate highway to where I live), but for some very strange reason I do not have a raw copy of my own one of those pictures to post here at the moment (so I do apologize for that), so here is a GMSV (Google Maps Street-View) picture:



(from off of Interstate 75 Northbound in Dalton, GA)