Yahoo! Maps Invents Silly San Francisco Place Names: 'Inset,' 'Outset'

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Oh, if only I made enough to afford a flat in the Inset!

As first noticed by Jim Herd over at SF Citizen, locals using Yahoo! Maps may find themselves doing a double-take -- right at the outset of their experience. For reasons yet unknown, the service has labeled the Inner Sunset "Inset" and Outer Sunset "Outset."

Huh.

Our calls to Yahoo! have not yet been answered.

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Since your humble narrator was born at U.C. San Francisco, does that mean he was in the Inset from the Outset?

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