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A signpost is an erected sign. The Signpost, Signpost or Sign Post may also refer to: Media and literature.
Sign warning of cattle crossing in a rural road of Madeira Island, Portugal. Traffic signs can be grouped into several types. For example, Annexe 1 of the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals (1968), which on 30 June 2004 had 52 signatory countries, defines eight categories of signs:
A sign in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, lists control cities of Wichita, Kansas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, for Interstate 35 and Interstate 40, respectively.. A control city is a city, locality, or other location posted on a series of traffic signs along a particular stretch of road indicating destinations on that route. [1]
Signage systems are visually oriented information systems, consisting of signs, maps, arrows, color-codings systems, pictograms and different typographic elements. Signage systems differ from other methods of information presentation because they are typically used to guide people's passage through the physical world; road signs on a highway, station identification signs in a subway and ...
A fingerpost at Betchworth, Surrey.The additional orange arrow shows the route of a cyclosportive.. A fingerpost (or guidepost) is a type of sign post consisting of a post with one or more arms, known as fingers, pointing in the direction of travel to places named on the fingers, often including distance information.
A Prussian milestone c. 1836, reading "II MEILEN BIS BERLIN" ("two miles to Berlin").. The first direction signs were milestones on the Roman road network; finding one's location on the long, straight roads was difficult, and hence, large stones were placed at intervals along the roads, giving the distance in Roman miles to nearby major cities, and usually to the capitals of major provinces.
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Hi. I am jp×g, writing at 22:29, 24 October 2022 (UTC).The following document will be my attempt to summarize, in an understandable way, how the Signpost works on a purely technical level (i.e. the electrical system that causes Signpost content to go from writers' keyboards to your eyeballs).