Don’t call it south of the Market, north of the Mission, near Potrero Hill. It’s Somisspo.
According to Google, anyway. As our anonymous tipster says:
…it looks like those fellers at google are going on a cartographic joyride.
Not sure where they got that name, but there’s no way the source is as reliable as Johnny0. Hey are you reading this Google? Civic Valley. Make it happen.
[Thanks, anonymous tipster]
UPDATE: And Royal Gate! -Allan
http://www.google.com/mapmaker
Fyi, you should be able to do it yourself with Map Maker
I noticed this when I moved into the area about 3 months ago. I kind of like it!
Soma-Mission-Potrero = Somisspo?
I prefer “that weird division-y area.”
Nah, this one’s been around for a long time. It just never caught on. Check out the comments on this old post.
http://sfist.com/2005/04/15/whats_my_name.php
That link does not mention the dumb and un-creative moniker “Somisspo” (someone’s poo?). Are the comments just –POOF!– gone now? Cuz I don’t see it.
And anyway, how does 2005 for a neighborhood name in SF constitute “a long time?” Most neighborhoods have had their names for multiple decades at least, if not generations.
Yeah, Mighty has been using this on their website since forever ago.
To semi-tractor-trailer drivers, its called “the wiggle.”
Ha!
We always called that the Designer Ghetto.
I heard it called “MiSoPo”, which is funnier.
I have bad dreams about this area
That’s the neighborhood I work in, and I’ve always heard it referred to as the “design district”
According to google, the design district is down the street at 7th and Carolina.
I like to call it “mark-van-mish” or sometimes I call it the “armpit”
Ick. Death to importing Manhattan naming conventions into San Francisco! We have lost the battle for NoPa but we must hold the line!
Here here! It does not reflect San Francisco creativity and flair. WE DON’T COPY IN SF (or at least we are remiss if we do)…
So I miss the po’.
It was going to to be “SoMissPot” but they realized nobody in that area is ever in a position to miss pot so they cut the last T off.
Mighty has been using this on their website since forever ago.
x factor streaming
So, as I just moved into this microhood… I have been having trouble telling people where I live… “well its like top of the mission or like below civic center/soma kinda…”
Lets pick a name and make it stay (and not be so ridiculous).
BTW this microhood is awesome, convenient to everything, yet somehow QUIET at night… I dig.
Missopo > Somisspo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-MpnhwJjw
Thanks, now I’ll be singing/whistling that all day.
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Google declares new neighborhood ‘Somisspo’
Posted May 2, 2011 at 3:50 pm by Vic Wong
Categories: Life in the Mission
Tags: arbitrary naming, Somisspo
Don’t call it south of the Market, north of the Mission, near Potrero Hill. It’s Somisspo.
According to Google, anyway. As our anonymous tipster says:
…it looks like those fellers at google are going on a cartographic joyride.