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highway location marker

numbered marker along a road or boundary
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highway location marker

Summary

highway location marker ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (331 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • highway location marker is a type of traffic sign[2].
  • highway location marker is a type of distance marker[3].
  • highway location marker is part of road[4].
  • highway location marker is used for linear referencing[5].
  • highway location marker's said to be the same as is recorded as myriameterstone[6].
  • highway location marker's said to be the same as is recorded as milestone[7].
  • highway location marker's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kilometre signs[8].
  • highway location marker's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as highway=milestone[9].
  • highway location marker's different from is recorded as guidestone[10].
  • highway location marker's different from is recorded as distance marker[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include traffic sign[2] and distance marker[3].

Use and Application

highway location marker is used for linear referencing[5]. It is part of road[4].

Why It Matters

highway location marker ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (331 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). highway location marker. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/highway-location-marker
MLA “highway location marker.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/highway-location-marker.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_highway-location-marker_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{highway location marker}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/highway-location-marker}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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Edit History

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  1. 23d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → road
    P14692 → Q5135
    Has use → linear referencing
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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