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We at SFist are constantly on the search to make life better for you, and what could be better than flying like a superhero through our fave city via Google Earth, or racing around in a totally rad Pole Position car? When that gets old, here's a few more ways to use maps with an API interface that actually are helpful.
We'll assume that everyone knows about the AC Transit and MUNI Nextbus apps and skip right to those who choose to use their own feet.
Walkjogrun.net has a beta interface up that will let you see what routes other people are running in your neck of the woods, and let you post your own. It's easy to create a route, but because the route won't automatically follow a road, if the road bends you have to make a new click, which breaks down the run into way too many segments. But it is useful for anyone who wants to see what others in their neighborhood are running, or find the true distance on their favorite route. Although we have to say, Oakland has 223 routes, San Francisco has 181, but San Jose only has 1? Off the couches, loafers!
SFist Jacob, contributing. After the jump, maps for dogs, finding hot people, and your first kiss
For those of you with four-legged friends, there's the map to San Francisco Dog Parks. There's not many features on this, but it might give you a good idea of where to go next if it's a little too embarrassing seeing all the dates that Fido got gossiping about you.
When you've picked up that new date, this map has a disturbing number of places to see the sun set exactly in the center of the Golden Gate Bridge from Berkeley. We're guessing Yahoo either did the math to find the best place, or they hired a lonely engineer who likes long walks and sunsets and Julio Iglesias. Is it possible to stalk the sun?
Far more likely to lead to real stalking is the Hot or Not map. Is this real? Hot or Not has always kind of put us at a dis-ease, but that just might be our highly distrustful luddite tendencies coming out. In any event, if you're trolling for stalker bait, this is a place to start.
Where I Had My First Kiss is much more up our alley, as it lets you pinpoint where you shared a first kiss. We'll attribute the fact there's only two posts about first kisses in San Francisco to the fact that no one knows about this site yet. Really, only two first kisses in all of San Francisco? Up and at 'em loyal readers. We wanna hear your stories!