I tweeted a few days ago about an article on SFGate about the little street we live on. A couple days after that, the SFist posted an old map of the city from 1862.
Take close look at the map, in the lower left corner. If you follow Market Street to the lower left corner, near a large number 11 is “Kate Street”. This street no longer exists, and it leads to an area labeled “Hospital Area”; this is now Duboce Park and three cul-de-sac blocks of homes, one of which is now Potomac St. It’s fun to see the map agree with what I read in the book by Harry Nimmo referenced in the article.
I am entertaining a fantasy of creating a Google Map of the area and replacing the tiles with the old map. Hopefully I’ll actually get to that.
UPDATE: I’ve checked the Google Maps API, and it seems what I need to do is a “Custom Map Type”, which The Google deems an “Advanced Topic.” They put this in red; I may be in over my head!
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