[OHM] History of SF Street Names

[David Riordan]

Noah just posted a long writeup on the project for Mozilla OpenNews:
http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/mapping-history-street-names/

He seems interested in rolling it out as a package that'll work for
creating similar projects in other cities.

David Riordan | Product Manager, NYPL Labs |
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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:01 AM, David Riordan <davidriordan at nypl.org> wrote:

> This is really cool. This kind of rename tracking is going to be pretty
> critical for HOSM and tracking down sources like this is going to be pretty
> big.
>
> Here's to a lot more awesome rename trackers.
>
> David Riordan | Product Manager, NYPL Labs | @NYPL_Labs<http://twitter.com/nypl_labs>
> davidriordan at nypl.org | m 203.521.1222 | @riordan<http://twitter.com/riordan>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dan Vanderkam <danvdk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let's not forget the Great Street Renaming of 1909!
>> http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/s/streetNaming.html
>>
>> This sort of thing was a serious pain while geocoding images for
>> oldsf.org. In addition to renaming the old grids, they also renamed
>> some German-sounding street names around World War I.
>>
>>   - Dan
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
>> wrote:
>> > On 4/30/13 3:31 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Awesome presentation. I'm learning tons.
>> >>
>> > i would have been interested in seeing the background for Urbano Drive.
>> >
>> > what i know about the street is that it was originally a horse track
>> which
>> > opened in 1895. Auto racing was held there intermittantly from 1904
>> > to 1911. in 1912 a housing development was built which incorporated
>> > the track into the city's street grid as Urbano Drive.
>> >
>> > richard
>> >
>> >
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