Every Autobahn and other Highway has it: Kilometerposts.

How do they look like in your countries?

Autobahn in germany:

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2593/dsc01112me3.jpg

Autobahn in the Netherlands:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3873/dsc01154rh9.jpg

Spain. Kilometerposts (railways)

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/2217/dscf10248fp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
pic from ssc.


Kilometerposts (highways)

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk303/diegodbs/km1.png

Though quite unclear, a small mile-post in the down right corner (mile 340)
http://i33.tinypic.com/33fb6vq.jpg

http://picasaweb.google.com/rmihailucian/Drumuri#5247049026615477826

a kilometric mark-maybe the best thing u can see on romanian roads-u get information of how many kilometres there are to a big town ahead on that road(slobozia in that case) and how many kilometres there are to the first village u encounter.

In Ontario exit numbering on the 400-series highways reflects directly the distance from the beginning of the highway. To find the distance you've driven, just subtract your exit number from your entrance number. It is confusing to some people, since exit numbers are not sequential like in many other countries (although I think the US often uses a similar system, but with miles), but I like it :)

There are also small km markers as far as I know, but I don't have any pictures.

The Hungarian ones are simple: a white number on a green plate. At least they are relatively big:

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/3245/p1020654sx6.jpg

I don't like Slovenian signs:

http://www.signaco.si/znaki/obvestila/obvest114.jpg

http://lupiros02.lu.funpic.de/s-2008-07m/s-2008-07-4412.JPG

what does 1456 mean?

I don't like Slovenian signs:

http://www.signaco.si/znaki/obvestila/obvest114.jpg

http://lupiros02.lu.funpic.de/s-2008-07m/s-2008-07-4412.JPG

Why? I think they're better than the German ones as they show you on which road you are.

In Ontario exit numbering on the 400-series highways reflects directly the distance from the beginning of the highway. To find the distance you've driven, just subtract your exit number from your entrance number. It is confusing to some people, since exit numbers are not sequential like in many other countries (although I think the US often uses a similar system, but with miles), but I like it :)

There are also small km markers as far as I know, but I don't have any pictures.

Austria uses that system. I'd never seen it before and it took me a while to work out what the exit numbers meant.

The Czech Republic also uses that system if I'm correct. I kind of like it. It gives some problems in mile-based countries because there can be multiple exits within one mile (up to like 9 in Chicago's I-94!). Kilometers are shorter, so it happens fewer times. It's easier to calculate distances.

^^ We have the same kind of exit numbering in Hungary too. It has the advantage that if a new exit is built, the whole numbering does not have to be changed.

what does 1456 mean?No idea, to be honest.

Why? I think they're better than the German ones as they show you on which road you are.Ok, but they aren't aesthetic IMO (the white color, too many data). Also they don't tell you the distance from the beginning/end of the road, but from the beginning/end of a (short) road section (unless very close to the beginning/end of the road).

No idea, to be honest.


i was allways curious about it.
btw, we in Croatia have similar signs, but i know what this 22 means - it is number of section at road. little bit stupid because you canno't learn by heart all the sections' beginnings and endings, but you can easily expect where they are because in most cases those are some larger cities/places or some more important. positiv thing about ti is that you often dont go to finaly point of road, so you can easily count the distance to your destination.


so, this is how they look in Croatia:

http://www.buljanceste.com/index.php?option=com_ponygallery&func=watermark&id=245&orig=0&Itemid=41

and on motorways:

http://www.buljanceste.com/index.php?option=com_ponygallery&func=watermark&id=244&orig=0&Itemid=41

those are new at motorways, old are without motorway number

This are like they look in Mexico.

http://img46.exs.cx/img46/5060/al2.jpg
Por ElRegio

No idea, to be honest.

Ok, but they aren't aesthetic IMO (the white color, too many data). Also they don't tell you the distance from the beginning/end of the road, but from the beginning/end of a (short) road section (unless very close to the beginning/end of the road).

Oh ok, it's the same system we use here in Germany. I don't like it for the same reasons you wrote. Only on Autobahns we use an understandable system^^. On Autobahns they start with 0,0 and then every 500m there's a marker. On the other roads every 200m there's a plastic sign.

On Bundes-, Landes-, and Kreisstraßen, (national, state and county) the signs looks like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Kilometerstein-B172-s%C3%B6Krietzschwitz.jpg

i was allways curious about it.
btw, we in Croatia have similar signs, but i know what this 22 means - it is number of section at road.

I thought of that too, but... 1456th section? :nuts:

I thought of that too, but... 1456th section? :nuts:

Here in germany I suppose that they gave the section numbers without any system. They are three characters long, but they are not sequential...:ohno:

^ At least it says ABSCHNITT. :D (section)

I like the Dutch signs most, especially on motorways (green-red combination).

^ At least it says ABSCHNITT. :D (section)

I like the Dutch signs most, especially on motorways (green-red combination).

Me too. They're well designed, and they appear every 100 meters.

In Turkey;
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d158/ont1991/P7160046.jpg

It means;
Road Number - Section
----------------------
______Kilometer

In the UK we dont really have these. Maybe on some motorways, but no smaller roads.

Spain:

These ones are used every 10 km (hito miriamétrico).
http://www.e-dazibao.com/criterio/archivos/20050715hito1.jpg

Every kilometer (hito kilométrico).
http://www.totana.com/educacion-vial/se%C3%B1ales/FOTOS%20GRANDES/0174-SE%C3%91ALES.jpg

The colour is different depending on the type of road: Blue (for autopistas and autovías), red for national roads, then orange, green, yellow and grey.

I thought of that too, but... 1456th section? :nuts:
Not 1456th section, but section n. 1456. Large number, but hey, not everything is logical in our country.:lol:

As of kilometer posts, I like Italian ones (don't have picture though). They sign kilometers in normal (Arabian) numbers and hectometers in Roman numbers (I, II, III, IV ...)

Also, in Austria, hectometers are signed on the road pavement.

An example of a kilometer post in Belgium:

http://www.tomputtemans.com/images/KilometerPoleBelgium.jpg

It displays the number of the road, the kilometer and beneath there's always a sign pointing towards the nearest emergency phone. (I'm not sure of their exact name in English, but if I'd translate it from Dutch, it'd literally be: talking post)

There are also posts each hectometer (100 meters), which are smaller in size, and only display the kilometers (but then with an added decimal, 53.2 for example) and the nearest emergency phone.

Greetings,
Glodenox

here is one from Italy from motorway:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/kmpost.png

The Czech Republic also uses that system if I'm correct. I kind of like it. It gives some problems in mile-based countries because there can be multiple exits within one mile (up to like 9 in Chicago's I-94!). Kilometers are shorter, so it happens fewer times. It's easier to calculate distances.

You're correct!

D11:
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z244/ptalas/Pha-Ova/Pic040.jpg