2007 Toyota Tacoma odometer

"Nicholas Bourne" <nbourne@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Nicholas Bourne" <nbourne@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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>>>> I do not agree. The markers should be within a few meters of where they
>>>> say they are. My disagreement ias solely your assertion of the rate of
>>>> error that the highway department will tolerate. I think that the error
>>>> in placing a mile marker is within a few meters, not a hundred meters.
>>>> A highway marker will be omitted before it will be placed in the wrong
>>>> location.
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>>> In the city they maybe but out in the country where I live you sometimes
>>> can't be that accurate. Our roads go over very changeable soil types. In
>>> the black soil plains the main highway has more waves in it than a
>>> rollercoaster. Personally I don't trust them to perfectly accurate with
>>> the distance markers over our distances. I think 200Km +- 100m is fine.
>>> when the raod is dead straight and you don't see another car for the
>>> whole distance I don't really care.
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>> I don't live in the city either. I do live in California, and your
>> mileage may vary, but they will not plant a mile marker before they plant
>> one in the wrong place.
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>> The purpose of a mile marker isn't for you to calibrate your odometer or
>> speedometer (but they are useful for that), they are for emergency crews
>> and highway maintenance crews. When you are on the highway and observe a
>> crash, you can tell the emergency operator that you are east of mile
>> marker 27.5, and they have a better idea of where to send the response
>> crew. Cellphones these days have a GPS-like circuit built in that helps
>> the emergency operator find you as you are making the call, so your
>> observance of mile markers isn't all that important, but that is why the
>> markers are there.
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>> If there is a mile marker planted on the side of the road, you can take
>> it to the bank that it is precisely where it says it is, within a few
>> meters.
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> Your mile markers are used for different things. Ours are only used to
> tell you the distance to the next town along the road and are usually
> every 20 to 30 kilometers so if it's out by 200m it doesn't really matter.
> In the country at best you can only give a rough area where you are anyway
> and thats usually enough.
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> By the way (I'm not being picky) our mobiles dont cover much for real
> emergancy use. My state along covers some 720,000 square miles (I think
> it's about 10% bigger than Texas with about a fifth the population) and
> less than 10% is covered by mobile reception.
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I'm not talking about the signs that say, 28 miles to Somewhere, 15 miles to
Somewhere, 7 miles to Somewhere, Somewhere, Next right. Those signs are all
over the map for accurate placement.

We have small signs, typically about 9 inches x 27 inches, or something like
that, that are white with black letters (numerals in this instance) that
notate the miles, typically in half-mile increments, along our federal
(interstate) highway system. Our State Highways also have these markers, but
the state highways are more likely to have signs missing. Our signs mark the
miles upward as one travels northbound and east bound, and count downwards
as one travels southbound and westbound.

Zero is at the county line, or the beginning of the highway if the highway
starts at an intersection other than a county line.