Those hanging signs are usually only found in the mountainous areas of BC, and they’re quite rare on the coast. There’s actually two reasons they’re like that. Firstly, it’s so that snowplows don’t knock them over as often by having the pole further from the road, and hanging the sign over so it doesn’t affect the visibility of the sign. The second reason is so that they can swing. If the signs didn’t move, any backwards tilt in the sign would cause snow to stick to the face of the sign. A swinging sign keeps the sign straight, even if the pole is crooked. It also makes it easier to simply knock of the snow if it does happen to get any on it.
Thanks man, these are extremely useful! The white spheres are probably radomes (wiki - A radome is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a radar antenna. The radome is constructed of material transparent to radio waves. Radomes protect the antenna from weather and conceal antenna electronic equipment from view)
Great video! I love the fire hydrant meta. I've noticed that they differ around the country but never realized there was any pattern to it. Shout out to a few other useful BC trees: 1) the Arbutus tree has a very distinctive twisty trunk and peeling bark and a fairly small range around southern coastal BC. 2) the Monkey Puzzle tree (as seen on the right at 3:25 ) is native to Chile but is commonly planted as an ornamental tree around the lower mainland (and probably Victoria) but I don't think they can survive anywhere else in Canada. 3) The Ponderosa Pine is found in the southern interior and has distinctive scaly looking orangish bark.
Iqaluit does have some paved roads which you should be able to see in some newer imagery. The white structures are radar stations, and structures like this have been used in the far north since the Cold War! They were part of the Distant Early Warning line. Nowadays they're used for monitoring the weather
Great Guide! Funny how you are teaching me things about my own province even though I live in Prince George and have traveled all over it. The fire hydrant meta is surprisingly OP and I never heard about it as well.
Great video! I was able to pull of 20k scores on the British Columbia and Northern Territories map off the cuff (no moving, 1 min) . The aspen "meta" came in clutch. Looking forward to the whole series!
@@jasperwoodard8134 that could be the case, but there's another new one in greater vancouver recently again and it's 268. now i've been seeing a lot of 778 numbers everywhere
Outside of Iqaluit, red guy wires can only be found east of ontario (admittedly quite rarely) so they are a useful uncommon meta for distinguishing things like bc vs ontario. A meta i think you'd like is that british columbian road signs have very thick clasps attaching the sign to the post. They look like rings with nails in them, and are found mostly in the south east. the area you find them in could be described a bit like a rectangle with edges around Whistler and Kelowna. There are other sign post metas that ive compiled into a doc here docs.google.com/document/d/1u3IGe_uKPsPjuDz91AzMeMgEqNNlmBxvSpVvILe5zz8 BC looks like such a beautiful place, as a NB resident im quite jealous of all the mountains lol
Those hanging signs are usually only found in the mountainous areas of BC, and they’re quite rare on the coast.
There’s actually two reasons they’re like that. Firstly, it’s so that snowplows don’t knock them over as often by having the pole further from the road, and hanging the sign over so it doesn’t affect the visibility of the sign. The second reason is so that they can swing. If the signs didn’t move, any backwards tilt in the sign would cause snow to stick to the face of the sign. A swinging sign keeps the sign straight, even if the pole is crooked. It also makes it easier to simply knock of the snow if it does happen to get any on it.
Thank you about talking about the Okanagan... we often get missed...
Thanks man, these are extremely useful!
The white spheres are probably radomes (wiki - A radome is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a radar antenna. The radome is constructed of material transparent to radio waves. Radomes protect the antenna from weather and conceal antenna electronic equipment from view)
Great video! I love the fire hydrant meta. I've noticed that they differ around the country but never realized there was any pattern to it. Shout out to a few other useful BC trees: 1) the Arbutus tree has a very distinctive twisty trunk and peeling bark and a fairly small range around southern coastal BC. 2) the Monkey Puzzle tree (as seen on the right at 3:25 ) is native to Chile but is commonly planted as an ornamental tree around the lower mainland (and probably Victoria) but I don't think they can survive anywhere else in Canada. 3) The Ponderosa Pine is found in the southern interior and has distinctive scaly looking orangish bark.
Iqaluit does have some paved roads which you should be able to see in some newer imagery.
The white structures are radar stations, and structures like this have been used in the far north since the Cold War! They were part of the Distant Early Warning line. Nowadays they're used for monitoring the weather
Great Guide! Funny how you are teaching me things about my own province even though I live in Prince George and have traveled all over it. The fire hydrant meta is surprisingly OP and I never heard about it as well.
We need a part 3!
Nice one Jasper, keep em coming!
Great video! I was able to pull of 20k scores on the British Columbia and Northern Territories map off the cuff (no moving, 1 min) . The aspen "meta" came in clutch. Looking forward to the whole series!
Very helpful tips as usual Jasper. Thank you!
778 is also very common in greater vancouver area
@@jasperwoodard8134 that could be the case, but there's another new one in greater vancouver recently again and it's 268. now i've been seeing a lot of 778 numbers everywhere
Great video, very useful (:
Outside of Iqaluit, red guy wires can only be found east of ontario (admittedly quite rarely) so they are a useful uncommon meta for distinguishing things like bc vs ontario.
A meta i think you'd like is that british columbian road signs have very thick clasps attaching the sign to the post. They look like rings with nails in them, and are found mostly in the south east. the area you find them in could be described a bit like a rectangle with edges around Whistler and Kelowna. There are other sign post metas that ive compiled into a doc here docs.google.com/document/d/1u3IGe_uKPsPjuDz91AzMeMgEqNNlmBxvSpVvILe5zz8
BC looks like such a beautiful place, as a NB resident im quite jealous of all the mountains lol
great video btw!
It is my doc but i dont need a shoutout, just want to make all the information as accessible as possible. You can do whatever you want with it!