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)
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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)
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01 2 / 2012
Golden Gate Park’s Hidden Gems
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.
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27 1 / 2012
Stereotypes!
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!
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25 1 / 2012
Where the Wealthy Live
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.
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13 1 / 2012
Meat Map
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.
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12 1 / 2012
Quilted San Francisco
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.
Log in to Fab to buy one on sale before they’re all gone.
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