veltman

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by veltman 13y ago
Glad you enjoyed it!
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by veltman 13y ago
I love this. I've been curious what a one-line solution would look like. :)
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by veltman 13y ago
Hey, I'm the one who made this. Glad you guys liked it! This one was a bit quick and dirty, done for a workshop at the Mozilla Festival last year, I'm going to try to do another installment though!
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by veltman 13y ago
I'm going to add a version of this soon! Not overlays, but at least popping up the neighborhood name histories when you use the "Jump To" neighborhoods list in the corner. I didn't make it too high a priority since most of them are either
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by veltman 13y ago
Been planning to add this, dates for when the street got its current name (when available). Coming soon!
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by veltman 13y ago
I would imagine there's a lot of overlap in the names! Plenty of the SF streets are for figures of general California/Bay Area history, not purely local figures. There are also a bunch of folks like Jack London and Ralph Kirkham who had s
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by veltman 13y ago
Well, I'm interested in history generally, but I'm not sure I was an SF history obsessive going into this project. I was just interested in the fact that I was surrounded by streets that were clearly all named after people and I had no ide
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by veltman 13y ago
Yeah, there are lots of categories like neighborhood names that have their own interesting stories but I wasn't sure how to display. Definitely lots of room for improvement, there are also plenty of gaps in the streets, I'll hopefully be a
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by veltman 13y ago
FYI, if you view it on your phone, you should be able to use the link in the lower-right corner to zoom to your current location!
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by veltman 13y ago
Hey guys, I made this map. Happy to answer any questions about how it was done, I'm going to do a detailed writeup when I have a chance. The short version is: no Wikipedia link-up, it's all manual research from archives, books, and sites