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2. Great-circle navigation - Wikipedia

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   Great-circle navigation or orthodromic navigation (related to orthodromic course; from Ancient Greek ορθός (orthós) 'right angle', and δρόμος (drómos) 'path') is the practice of navigating a vessel (a ship or aircraft) along a great circle. Such routes yield the shortest distance between two points on the globe.

3. Stopping sight distance - Wikipedia

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   Stopping sight distance is one of several types of sight distance used in road design. It is a near worst-case distance a vehicle driver needs to be able to see in order to have room to stop before colliding with something in the roadway, such as a pedestrian in a crosswalk, a stopped vehicle, or road debris .

4. Statistical distance - Wikipedia

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   Statistical distance. In statistics, probability theory, and information theory, a statistical distance quantifies the distance between two statistical objects, which can be two random variables, or two probability distributions or samples, or the distance can be between an individual sample point and a population or a wider sample of points.

5. Driver location sign - Wikipedia

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   The Secretary of State used this provision to authorise the design of driver location signs and to use the same location information on them as on the distance marker posts. In 2016, driver location signs were added to Schedule 11 of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (TSRGD). Diagram 2718 shows a driver location sign ...

6. Turn-by-turn navigation - Wikipedia

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   Turn-by-turn navigation is a feature of some satellite navigation devices where directions for a selected route are continually presented to the user in the form of spoken or visual instructions. [1] The system keeps the user up-to-date about the best route to the destination, and is often updated according to changing factors such as traffic ...

7. County collecting - Wikipedia

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   County collecting is a way for people to relate to geography and their own life histories. One journalist characterized it as "a very organized form of wanderlust." [1] Many county collectors became interested in the pursuit after being given a school assignment to plot their travels on a county-outline map of the United States.