Signs and objectsThe 1,864 sign
ป้าย 1,864 โค้ง
The only road sign in Thailand that people stop and photograph themselves next to.
What it is
A board by the road with a number on it, and the shirts, mugs and stickers that carry the same number through Pai.
The long version
Inference — the interesting thing about this object is what it does. A route number tells you where you are. This one tells you what you have survived, and it is the only piece of roadside furniture on the circuit that people queue to be photographed beside.
Nobody publishes the survey behind it. But counting every change of turning direction on the map of the same route gets to about 1,310 from below, on a trace that physically cannot see a bend shorter than sixty metres — so the number is the right size, and the sign is doing its job.
Inference — what it is really advertising is not arithmetic. It is that this is a road you do rather than a road you take.
Runs with
- story1,864 curves — Whether it holds up, and it does.
- roadRoute 1095 — The road it names.
- townPai — The town that sells it.
- artThe kilometre stone — The other roadside number, and the useful one.
Named here by
- story1,864 curves — The object it is written on.
- artThe kilometre stone — The other thing by the roadside with a number on it.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | inference | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- ทางหลวงแผ่นดินหมายเลข 1095 — Wikipedia (th)
- Curve and distance measurements off the OSM polyline — This project
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there