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Re:History of San Francisco Place Names by martinoma on Monday April 29, 2013 @03:53PM (#5628284)
This is awesome. It would be cool to see neighborhood names, too, when they aren't linked directly to a street
Re:History of San Francisco Place Names by veltman on Monday April 29, 2013 @07:05PM (#5629449)
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 able to fill some of those in in the coming weeks.
Re:History of San Francisco Place Names by PaulHoule on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:51PM (#5629077)
neighborhoods are actually easier than streets because you can find neighborhood polygons in many databases... this must have involved linking up Wikipedia with a real GIS database like Open Street Maps. I'd love to hear more about how it was done!