(Glen Park Library is where Ross Ulbricht was arrested.)
Here's a similar one about Colliers Wood (South London), another small area whose location is often described as 'between X and Y' (in this case, Tooting and Wimbledon):
I worked on a project long time ago similar to this. I had to dig up old maps from major public libraries across a handful of cities and overlay them on top of modern maps using key historical landmarks and geographical features. It’s amazing how cities evolve and transform over time. I think what would be cool is if someone could build a street-level time capsule of places like New York. Perhaps monthly or even daily.
Pastmaps might be what you're thinking of? They have an archive of the maps that the United States Geological Survey used to serve as their Historical Topographic Map Collection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Street has:
"The street was named for Dr. William J. Powell, surgeon of the U.S. sloop of war Warren, which was active during the conquest of California.[1]".
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(Though I do love the website's interface)
https://chatgpt.com/share/685b0890-fa44-8013-adce-8db2855d13...
(Glen Park Library is where Ross Ulbricht was arrested.)
Here's a similar one about Colliers Wood (South London), another small area whose location is often described as 'between X and Y' (in this case, Tooting and Wimbledon):
https://chatgpt.com/share/685b09a4-14f0-8013-ad2c-3c2c7f8c25...
If only this answered the great puzzle of San Francisco street names - why are the state-named streets in Potrero Hill and the Mission in that order?
NB: the streets are named after ships that are named after states
Interactive map shows history of San Francisco place names - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16747029 - April 2018 (1 comment)
History of San Francisco Place Names - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5628182 - April 2013 (29 comments)
That comes from this document on the website of the Museum of the City of San Francisco: https://sfmuseum.org/street/stnames5.html
Seems like that would be a good additional source to add to the map.