From: schornak@nospicedham.web.de   
      
   Bartc wrote:   
      
      
   > On 21/12/2017 23:32, Bernhard Schornak wrote:   
   >> Bartc wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> OK. I wouldn't like to be a postman where you live if the houses are   
   identified in the same manner.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> A good analogon. Just imagine the houses are named grey house,   
   >> yellow house, white house, et cetera, depending on the colour.   
   >> After decades, someone like you comes up with the idea to name   
   >> those houses with numbers. Do you think the residents did like   
   >> your new invention, just because you are too lazy to write the   
   >> full colour names? ;)   
   >   
   > The residents won't need to know anything about it.   
      
      
   I'm pretty sure they *would* care... ;)   
      
      
   > (I see you might be from Germany.   
      
      
   Yes. Augsburg is the third largest city in Bavaria (1st München   
   (Munich, Monaco), 2nd Nürnberg (Nuremberg)).   
      
      
   > I remember driving on the autobahn there when junctions were named   
   > instead of being numbered.   
   >   
   > That meant that, if passing a junction (or ausfahrt), you had no idea how   
   many more junctions until   
   > your exit, or whether you'd already passed your exit a couple of junctions   
   back. Not unless you'd   
   > memorised all the the names, or had a navigator.)   
      
      
   Must be a long time ago - today, exits do have white numbers in   
   white circles on the sign's blue background:   
      
   http://www.strassenschilder.de/richtzeichen/ankuendigungstafel/   
      
   Street signs are quite similar in all EU countries:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_signs   
      
      
   A merry Winter Solstice wishes   
      
   Bernhard Schornak   
      
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