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Re:Trunk Road Gritter Tracker by 70jS8h5L on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:49AM (#22405024)
I'm from the UK and was unaware of this method (trunk road to town/city after destination).

Is there somewhere I can read about this in more detail?

Thanks!

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Re:Trunk Road Gritter Tracker by ivix on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:19PM (#22406671)
Here is a list of primary destinations.

They are separated by region. So for example if you are in Cambridge (EAST region) you follow signs for EAST MIDLANDS. Once you are in that region, you will start seeing signs for the primary destinations in the region.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

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Re:Trunk Road Gritter Tracker by ivix on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:04PM (#22406512)
It's really just standard manual map based navigation. A dying art these days. I haven't seen many shrubbery related problems, we still have the best signage in the world (that I've seen) and it's perfectly possible to use sign based navigation without any GPS. You however may need to ask directions for the last couple of miles in rural areas.
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Re:Trunk Road Gritter Tracker by globular-toast on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:55AM (#22405114)
It used to be documented in the usage section at the beginning of road atlases.
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