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Tom Anderson · March 10th 09, 07:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, John Rowland wrote:

wrote:
On Mar 6, 4:53 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
I had a quick check, and the none of the Mississipi, Ganges,
Irrawaddy and Nile deltas, all of which are similar in geography,
are annotated like that. Presumably they're famous enough to have
received some manual tidyup. Also, none of them have a reindeer
depot.

If you zoom in near the "reindeer depot", you'll see that Tuktoyaktuk
Winter Road and Aklavik Winter Road wander around in the river/lakes.
Is this a function of poor cartography, or that for part of the year
the roads are submerged? (Serious question, I am intrigued).

The name "Winter Road" is a bit of a giveaway... the roads are only open
when the rivers and lakes are frozen.

ICE ROAD TRUCKERS!!

tom

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