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Those wee yellow road signs....

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  • 28-07-2002 10:40pm
    #1
    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Summat that has been bothering me for years, and now I'm only getting around to asking it! :D

    You've seen them, those little road yellow signs, sometimes with directional signposts, often on their own,

    Like this....

    N-52
    0155

    What the hell are they telling us? GPS positions?

    I'd love to know once and for all! :)

    Cheers,

    Damo.


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Ther first bit is the road designation ie N 52 second bit is a marker which denotes a point from the start of the route if I remember rightly. I think its something to do with the Ordnance Survey.

    Mike.


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    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    I knew what the N-52 bit meant, thank you very much :D:D

    I was wondering was it mapping and/or GPS related, no definitive source on the interweb to tell me...


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Sorry! :D

    I did a google before I tried to answer your query and could'nt find a sodding thing, except a jokey reference which suggested they were something to do with an alien invasion due in 1998!

    Mike


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