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 | @NYPL_Labs<http://twitter.com/nypl_labs> [email protected] | m 203.521.1222 | @riordan<http://twitter.com/riordan> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:01 AM, David Riordan <[email protected]> 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> > [email protected] | m 203.521.1222 | @riordan<http://twitter.com/riordan> > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dan Vanderkam <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >> > >
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