Gives information and keeps me from getting wet. 10/10 excellent structure
Why did my dumb ass think this was a cute lil baby guillotine at first
You’re spending too much time on Lemmy.
There are so many of these in Slovenia
I once cycled to a pub in the rain to meet friends. The pub had no where to lock a bike, apart from one of these roofed sign things. It was tricky but I managed to lock it to it. It was great, kept the rain off my bike.
An information board, such as a noticeboard or interpretive sign.
You can find them with the there linked overpass-turbo tool.
You are here 🔴
HOW THE FUCK CAN THEY POSSIBLY KNOW THAT
Modern surveillance state.
There is this nature reserve I like to go to nearby. They have a whole row of these setup explaining stuff about the region, the plants, what they do to preserve it (which is a lot). There’s also some along the walking route with relevant explanations about some of the plants and animals present at that location.
Until one day some fucking asshole during Covid got a lot of shitty anti-vax stickers and plastered them all over the place. All over all of the info signs, the walking route markers, basically anywhere they could. It must have been hundreds of stickers.
Next time I came there I reported it, but they said they were aware. People had tried to remove the stickers, but they were those really shitty paper stickers that just fell apart instead of coming off. They also weren’t water proof, so withing two weeks they weren’t even readable any more.
Some time later the people managing the place attempted to remove the stickers but it didn’t work. In the end they used such a strong chemical it not only removed the sticker but also damaged the plastic underneath. Those things were constructed of a metal plate with the prints on them and sandwiched in between acrylic. The kind of thing that will hold up for years outside and is easy to clean. The acrylic was also treated with an anti-graffiti coating, but that didn’t help against those shitty stickers I guess.
The signs were all but destroyed at that point and a forest manager told me they didn’t have the funds to replace them all. Some of the sings have since been replaced, but there are still a lot left damaged.
It ruined my peaceful place and made me hate anti-vaxxers even more. I used to go there to escape from all the awful stuff in the world during Covid as it was one of the things one could still do to not be locked in place all the time. People suck.
Use goof off or goo gone. Adhesive removers. Gone real quick.
But yeah fuck those idiots.
Or 91%+ iso, or mineral oil.
And scrape with razor blade.
And do small test patch of chems in an inconspicuous area any time you have a new chem/surface combo.
But yeah.
I never gave these things a second thought, but yeah, they are pretty awesome actually.
A geoguessr player posted this
IRL wiki about the shit around me?! Fuck yes!
I love being able to read the tour guide at my own pace rather than have it said to me. These structures are great.
I’ve only ever seen them at hiking trails, so yes. I’d rather be hiking than doing anything else
Had them in some small towns I lived in growing up that were used for a public board. Yard sales, missing stuff, other events or official notices.
Like you live in an open world RPG and the generated quests have a place to show up
Oh I’ve never seen that, maybe it’s regional
These are small towns. Like between 200-1000ish people. East Coast of Canada for me.
I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.
It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.
deleted by creator
with extra steps
Lmao a lot of em too
Depends on the hike. Sometimes I hike to where my phone is charging because I feel it’s charged long enough and I don’t want to spoil it. It should be as tired as I am. 20 percent? You’re more charged than I am get your ass over here.
deleted by creator
Maps with hats.
They can also have pockets, sometimes. It’s peak something or other
And dog poo bags, around here. And hopefully there’s a trash bin near the trailhead.
My only problem with these are that the plastic on them is always somehow smudge/frosted enough that you cant read a thing.
Maybe that’s a reason not to put plastic on them.
I mean, they exist for how long already?
I think it’s partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.
Plastic? We have plenty of them here and none is out of plastic.
Is their not a plastic sheet covering the posted maps and signs? Like the structure is wood, but most I have seen have a plastc covering over the display.
And ya sometimes the scratches and smearing and graffiti makes it unreadable.
We mostly have metal plates or a pin board with glass. People take care of them.
The bougie ones have glass… That might be what they are referring to.
I do a lot of hiking and most often it’s plastic. Weirdly you find the glass covered ones in usually boring trails in small towns that seem very rarely traveled. I have even seem some that are just cork board, with nothing covering it. The pages are either lamented, or less desirably slipped into a 3 ring binder type sleeve and stapled.
Those lesser traveled locations probably have lower rates of vandalism. Also, lower budgets, glass is cheaper than acrylic or polycarb.
At least here the actual papers and stuff pinned to them are covered by a locked hinged window made of plastic.
We would use a secure glass for this purpose. Plastic would be seen as “cheap” and unwelcoming.
This thing means - “Beyond this point remains some collection of natural items that rednecks have yet to destroy, or that venture capitalism has failed to monetize, yet.”
Ah yes. The redneck. A worldwide phenomena.
National parks are kind of hard to monetize for VCs if private capital isn’t allowed to own them
I give it less than a year before they start (at least attempting) to sell the land that National Parks reside on.
(They’re not talking about National Parks… yet.)
Well, shit.
It won’t be long till that is the case
Announcement
There will be a meeting
Additionally, Council Member <smudged> has <redacted>
Here is a map of the area not to scale
