Technology

My city recently renamed a street after Nelson Hackett, who was a local slave, but more notably, was the first and only escaped slave to have made it to Canada, and then be extradited back to the US. The road was previously named after Archibald Yell, the governor of Arkansas at the time, who wrote the extradition order. Canadian laws at the time forced the government to respect the extradition, but they found this situation so distasteful that they immediately changed the law to basically make Canada a safe haven for escaped slaves.

Lots of locals didn't know who Archibald Yell was, but now they do, and the road is now named after the slave whose case laid the groundwork for the Underground Railroad because of the governor's actions.

Not just a correction to the person who should really be celebrated, but also an S-tier snub, if you ask me.

Cool to see that the app is just a nice wrapper to query OSM data and not using yet another dumb silo. Its also just a webapp and not a native app spying on your data. https://en.stnameslab.com/american-search-app/ is the app.

I wonder if this would make sense as a https://mapcomplete.org/ layer

It's simple, don't use people's or other names! Use letters and numbers!

San Diego loves 4th and B for example. ruzzia, if you're reading, keep your war away from 4th and B please. Thank you!

Anyway just have all streets start with main and 1st or main and port or whatever. Then the rest of the numbers and the letters in proper order. As an example of how not to do something let's take my current neighborhood near Seattle....You can go to 60th and 61st. Like that's a place. Can you imagine? The utter confusion! Well I guess if you always said the horizontal and then the vertical like in math, that could work. But complicated non the less. So don't add names!..... Martin Luther King please!.... Ehhh is that before or after Est? Does P ave come first? C'mon!