Syrian opposition seeks to wipe the Assad name off the map — via Google

Among the first acts of victorious revolutionaries is to tear down signs bearing the names of the regimes they toppled.

In Syria, the opposition is not waiting for President Bashar al-Assad to fall.

Anti-government activists in recent weeks have used a Google crowdsourcing program, Map Maker, to rename key streets, bridges and boulevards after their revolutionary heroes, according to opposition figures and the Syrian government. The idea, activists say, has been to expunge the vestiges of the Assad family's 40-year rule and to commemorate protesters who have fallen over the course of an 11-month-old uprising.

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