23 4 / 2012
Walkable San Francisco
This heat map of walk scores in San Francisco and the East Bay comes via Slate’s recent series on walking in America.
According to Walk Score, San Francisco is the second most walkable city in America (always playing second fiddle to New York, we are). Our most walkable neighborhood is Chinatown, with a Walk Score of 99/100, and many eastern and northern neighborhoods in the city score almost as high.
Perhaps most surprising on this map is that large green pocket of walkability up in Marin, around downtown San Rafael. It’s a Walk Score of 63, so compared with Chinatown, not too walkable, but enough to merit a green spot on the heat map.
Find your Walk Score here.
10 4 / 2012
Edible Cupcake Map
It was only a matter of time. In the fine foodie tradition of the San Francisco Meat Map, and perhaps as a logical next step from the gangs and cupcakes map, comes the ultimate San Francisco cupcake map:
The folks at Cups and Cakes bakery created this map by with edible tiles based on Maptiles from Stamen Design and data from Open Street Map.
(via SFist)
04 4 / 2012
Click through for the version of San Francisco under 25 feet of water!
San Francisco Topography (clean) by Brian Stokle at Urban Life Signs.
This is lovely. Apparently the colours are based “on an atlas I have. It’s from the UK, so maybe they do their topographic colors differently”, which perhaps explains why I like it.’
See also: a version of this map with a twenty five foot rise in sea level, by the same designer.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
02 4 / 2012
8-Bit San Francisco
You probably saw Google’s April Fool’s Day maps project yesterday, in which they made the world look like 1980s Nintendo games. But did you know that you can see certain cities built in a labor of love in the same style, funded via a Kickstarter project nearly two years ago?
Google’s version (2012):
The 8-Bit Cities version (est. 2010/2011):
Click through to explore more of the 8-bit world on either site.
23 2 / 2012
Will New Zoning Laws Wipe Out Food Trucks?
A bill in the state assembly is threatening to prevent food trucks from parking within 1500 feet of any school, including elementary schools.
Obviously the food truckers and their fans are riled up over the whole thing. The bill would hamper continued development of the food truck revolution, especially at lunch hour.
Burrito Justice made this handy map to show the difference between a 1500-foot radius and a smaller, 500-foot one.
14 2 / 2012
14 2 / 2012
Awwwwww
This guy rode a Mission Bicycle in a heart shape around San Francisco, so he could send a picture of the route to his girlfriend in Toronto.
08 2 / 2012
San Francisco Butchery
Here’s a little historical background for last week’s meat map, via the Spatial History Project at Stanford University.
The researchers map the addresses of all the San Francisco butchers in the city’s early days, and find that as the city expands, the density of where people get their meat diminishes.
Looks like they had an abundance of real butchers back in the day. What happened between then and now to change things? Supermarkets? Bring back the neighborhood butcher shop!
02 2 / 2012
Birdseye View in 1876
Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country. Drawn by G. H. Goddard, c.e. Lith. Britton, Rey & Co.
And a close-up of Mission Bay, when it was actually a bay.
Zoom in, or see it at the Library of Congress’s 1996-tastic website.
(ht harlequinnnight)
