Maps of San Francisco

Walkable San Francisco

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:05:08 -0400

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.

Edible Cupcake Map

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:37:41 -0400

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)

Click through for the version of San Francisco under 25 feet of...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:46:34 -0400

Click through for the version of San Francisco under 25 feet of water!

blech:

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.

8-Bit San Francisco

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:54:13 -0400

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.

hypotheticalwren: Maps + paper cut art + San Francisco =...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:30 -0500

hypotheticalwren:

Maps + paper cut art + San Francisco = awesome.

Will New Zoning Laws Wipe Out Food Trucks?

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:38:57 -0500

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.

And here’s the official Mission Bicycle...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:00:50 -0500

And here’s the official Mission Bicycle post!

missionbicycle:

Miles Per Valentine //

Awwwwww This guy rode a Mission Bicycle in a heart shape around...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:27:51 -0500

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.

San Francisco Butchery

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:41 -0500

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!

Birdseye View in 1876

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:46:48 -0500

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)

Golden Gate Park's Hidden Gems

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:43:47 -0500

Portland’s Jennifer Reynolds takes a shining to our urban jewel in this bright rendering of the park’s hidden gems.

See more here, and go check out the Shakespeare Garden.

Stereotypes!

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:03:13 -0500

This one’s been making the rounds among my Facebook friends. Not much to say about it other than: Oh, San Francisco, you are so self-congratulatorily clever!

Where the Wealthy Live

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:11:23 -0500

Where do the One Percent live?

I can’t tell you that, but the The Bay Citizen does show us exactly how wealthy the 5% are in zip codes across the Bay Area. Probably safe to assume that the top 5% in Hunter’s Point don’t make the top 1%, while those red zips up in Pacific Heights do qualify.

Meat Map

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:29:49 -0500

Uptown Almanac spots a perfect storm of Things San Francisco Loves: Maps of itself and meat.

As long as it’s grass-fed, sustainably raised meat, that is. Sadly, according to the Uptown commenters, it will not be a fancy-pants butcher shop to compete with the Lo Cost Meat Market already serving the neighborhood there.

Quilted San Francisco

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:02:10 -0500

Spotted these understated city map quilts by Haptic Lab on Fab.com (hence all the sale embellishments on the photo). They’re soft white quilts embroidered with a city’s street map, and they’re beautiful.

Where are the Jobs?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:21:59 -0500

San Francisco and the Peninsula, mostly, according to this map put together by the Bay Citizen based on state unemployment data.

Pastmapper: San Francisco in 1852-3

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:40:57 -0500

What San Francisco looked like in 1853, geotagged with businesses and people too. Go read what Burrito Justice wrote about it over here, because it’s worth it.

(via Mission Mission/Burrito Justice)

Alternate Reality BART Map

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:56:15 -0500

Jake Coolidge made this map of the ideal BART system, based in part off 1950s-era plans for the system. He says of the plan map he studied:

Published in 1956, 16 years before the system first went into operation, the plan seemed to me, at the time, to capture a sense of unbridled optimism. The massive region-wide system of modern trains, depicted in well-designed maps and with stylish illustrations, embodied a confidence in technology to shape the rapidly changing post-war city.

Click through for the whole thing. This is a clean, well-designed transit map of what could have been a massive regional transit system.

(Jake Coolidge)

Curated Map of San Francisco's Public Art

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:49:49 -0500

Via CurbedSF, their favorite 16 pieces of public art in San Francisco. I suppose you could call this a curated collection (pun very much intended).

Previously we featured a map of all public art in San Franicsco, which was collected and mapped using open data from the city.

Tennis Maps of San Francisco

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:16:10 -0500

I cheated. There’s a database in here that doesn’t have a map. But it’s useful to sort by which courts have lights.

What are you waiting for? Go find a court and play some tennis.

And let me know if you need a partner.