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ca. 1935 maps, 1937 maps, old USGS topos
The only definite rail crossings were on Sugarloaf Key and Upper Matecumbe Key. By ca. 1935, US 1 didn't even cross the FEC mainline on the mainland until Hobe Sound. -- NE2 03:29, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm finding a bunch of sources that say it's at CR 905 (MM 106.5). 127.5 comes mainly from Wikipedia mirrors. -- NE2 03:58, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
User:NE2/Overseas: as you can see, most are within 1/10 mi (500 feet), but MM 107+ are all about 3/10 mi south of where they should be (in other words, US 1 is currently 3/10 mi shorter than one would think based on these markers). Anyone know why? Was the mileage recalculated at some point, but these were not moved? (Incidentally, the worst from 0-106 is MM 34, which is about 900 feet north of its proper location.) -- NE2 04:37, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
I am not a native English speaker and I am aware that the word span can have different meanings according to the context. But I see that the usage of mainspan in the template Infobox bridge is coherent with the definition in Span_(architecture): the distance between two intermediate supports. As I understand, technically Overseas Highway is not a single bridge. It is a highway that includes several bridges, the longest of which is the Seven_Mile_Bridge. Checking the Seven Mile Bridge page (and also the cited reference [1]), it has a maximum span (as for the above definition) of 41.15 meters. I do not know if that is the maximum for the whole Overseas Highway, i.e. for all the bridges that are part of it. But certainly 41.15 meters is closer to that maximum than 10 km, that is the full length of the Seven Mile Bridge (the length and the maximum span of a bridge would be equal only for bridges that have to intermediate supports).
In the comment to my edit, that was reverted, I pointed for comparison to the List_of_longest_suspension_bridge_spans, where the bridges with longest spans are enumerated. Note that all the bridges with spans of that length are suspension bridges for obvious architectural constraints, so the page could also be called List of longest bridge spans. 10 km would be five times the maximum span of the bridges at the top of that list.
IMHO either the template of the infobox should be changed (may be to Infobox road) or the bridge template should be used coherently to how it is used for describing other bridges.
Miguel.ceriani ( talk) 13:34, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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ca. 1935 maps, 1937 maps, old USGS topos
The only definite rail crossings were on Sugarloaf Key and Upper Matecumbe Key. By ca. 1935, US 1 didn't even cross the FEC mainline on the mainland until Hobe Sound. -- NE2 03:29, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm finding a bunch of sources that say it's at CR 905 (MM 106.5). 127.5 comes mainly from Wikipedia mirrors. -- NE2 03:58, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
User:NE2/Overseas: as you can see, most are within 1/10 mi (500 feet), but MM 107+ are all about 3/10 mi south of where they should be (in other words, US 1 is currently 3/10 mi shorter than one would think based on these markers). Anyone know why? Was the mileage recalculated at some point, but these were not moved? (Incidentally, the worst from 0-106 is MM 34, which is about 900 feet north of its proper location.) -- NE2 04:37, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
I am not a native English speaker and I am aware that the word span can have different meanings according to the context. But I see that the usage of mainspan in the template Infobox bridge is coherent with the definition in Span_(architecture): the distance between two intermediate supports. As I understand, technically Overseas Highway is not a single bridge. It is a highway that includes several bridges, the longest of which is the Seven_Mile_Bridge. Checking the Seven Mile Bridge page (and also the cited reference [1]), it has a maximum span (as for the above definition) of 41.15 meters. I do not know if that is the maximum for the whole Overseas Highway, i.e. for all the bridges that are part of it. But certainly 41.15 meters is closer to that maximum than 10 km, that is the full length of the Seven Mile Bridge (the length and the maximum span of a bridge would be equal only for bridges that have to intermediate supports).
In the comment to my edit, that was reverted, I pointed for comparison to the List_of_longest_suspension_bridge_spans, where the bridges with longest spans are enumerated. Note that all the bridges with spans of that length are suspension bridges for obvious architectural constraints, so the page could also be called List of longest bridge spans. 10 km would be five times the maximum span of the bridges at the top of that list.
IMHO either the template of the infobox should be changed (may be to Infobox road) or the bridge template should be used coherently to how it is used for describing other bridges.
Miguel.ceriani ( talk) 13:34, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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