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Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by metrognome »

ryanschneider wrote: post #16

This one always makes me giggle when driving through it but didn't show up on the site: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Antonio+Pkwy+%26+Avenida+D... https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Antonio/Banderas

I was about to check the site for this intersection! I wonder if the streets were named deliberately for this purpose...

Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by madcaptenor »

1123581321 wrote: post #48
madcaptenor wrote: post #15

I can't tell if there's an intersection of Church and State. All the top results at https://www.crossing.us/intersections/church/state (for me) have Church Street/Road intersecting with State Highway X or similar.

Church and State intersect in many of the cities I've lived in! They are common road names.

That's what I thought! But I don't know any of those intersections personally.

Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by kbutler »

Single name search seems broken:

  We couldn't find any intersections for James

  We couldn't find any intersections for Molly
Actually, looks like it's just broken in general.

  We couldn't find any intersections for james and molly
But it worked a few minutes ago...

Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by rockostrich »

kbutler wrote: post #63

Single name search seems broken: We couldn't find any intersections for James We couldn't find any intersections for Molly Actually, looks like it's just broken in general. We couldn't find any intersections for james and molly But it worked a few minutes ago...

The endpoint is throwing 502s now. Looks like they decided to just handle all bad responses with "We couldn't find any intersections..."

Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by hayleox »

kbutler wrote: post #63

Single name search seems broken: We couldn't find any intersections for James We couldn't find any intersections for Molly Actually, looks like it's just broken in general. We couldn't find any intersections for james and molly But it worked a few minutes ago...

Broken for me too :(. Not getting results even for incredibly generic searches (e.g. Main and Walnut)

Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by altotrees »

itcrowd wrote: post #54
altotrees wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to search for something I could take as a cosmic sign, inputting my girlfriend's name and then my own. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. We were however eating in a restaurant last year, a pizza place where people scribbled on the walls in marker, kind of an added character thing. Above my girlfriend's left shoulder were our names in faded writing, dated 4 years prior. We do not have fairly common names, so I'll take that…

Do you interpret it as a positive sign (since your names were there) or negative sign (since the writing has faded)..?

Good question...I would say a positive sign. Although faded, the names were still there four years later — kind of like how initial infatuation fades but hopefully the deeper love stays strong?

Maybe a reach.

Re: Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names

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Post by madcaptenor »

rosser wrote: post #45
wiredfool wrote: post #32

Not entirely sure how the listing for Peachtree and Peachtree didn't find anything in Georgia.

Years ago, I was visiting friends in Atlanta, one of whom was a civil engineer for GDoT. He took me to the intersection of Rosser Rd and Rosser Pl.

Anecdotally that seems very common in the suburbs of Atlanta. We're lazy about our street names here. I live at X Road and X Court (for some value of X) and that's not the only intersection like that in my subdivision. If I had a good data set I'd check if it's actually particularly common here or if I just noticed it since I moved here.
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