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Churches are major landmarks.
by avar 10y ago
Churches are major landmarks.
- lostlogin 10y agoSome are - they are absolutely everywhere in all cities I've lived in or visited, and yet I couldn't tell you the names of more than a couple. Do people really know the names of a significant portion of them?
- grzm 10y agoProbably the people who live in those neighborhoods do, which can be a useful reference if you're in those areas.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoAsking people about churches in 198x USSR was probably not the wisest way to go around for a CIA spy. Better stick with libraries.
- grzm 10y agoI was thinking more along the lines of "I'm looking for a shop near X."
- guard-of-terra 10y agoНикогда ещё Штирлиц[1] не был так близок к провалу. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz
- maxerickson 10y agoOr a useful reference point to call back to the artillery. Recording information that is tactically useful for a ground battle would almost certainly have been a goal of the mapping program.
- dingaling 10y agoThey are also long-lived ( on the scale of decades and centuries ) and have reasonably static names.
- ptaipale 10y agoYes, although in Soviet Union, they still often had other names and functions (as a movie theatre, or a grain warehouse, or whatever).