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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
