Whence the Street Name Cometh
April 29, 2013
Behold this finely crafted map of the history behind San Francisco street names:
Created by Noah Veltman, aka @veltman, it even lets you filter by categories!
I have a sneaking suspicion we will soon have a “renamed” category.
I’m not sure what is more interesting, *what* things are named after, or *why* they were named for things. If I may quote myself:
I guess the trick to getting something named after you is to live there before anyone else (or make the map yourself…)
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Burrito Justice 
Oooh! That’s great! Yoink!
The “loading” graphic of Sutro is awesome too!
Absolutely fantastic, thank you for sharing!
This is one of the most informative SF maps I’ve seen. I want to know more about the guy who created it! His projects are all over the, ahem, map! http://noahveltman.com/sandbox/
Dang it! I’d avoided this timesink for a few days and just fell victim. Amazing stuff. Sure beats digging around my folks’ dusty copy of Loewenstein’s classic Streets of SF, although I do love that one…
How does such a project manage to miss the Emperor Norton I Bridge?