SF News First-Ever Map Depicting San Francisco Bay Is Going to Auction This Month A map, which was scribed in Mexico on October 30, 1770, and is considered among historians to be the first map showing the San Francisco Bay, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on October 25.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mapping 24 Hours Of SF Transit In Two Minutes A mapping startup called Mapzen has been working on an experimental map-visualization project called TransitFlow that provides us an animated look at 24 hours worth of transit-vehicle movement around San Francisco. Curbed points
Arts & Entertainment Black Rock City Pops Up On Google Maps For several years someone has been putting together an "unofficial" map of Burning Man and all the art and theme camps, the newest of which you can see below, using Google Maps. But
SF News LinkedIn Map Shows Where People Flee To When They Leave The Bay Area Where do people go when they leave the Bay Area? Die-hards might answer "who cares" — The farthest from San Francisco or Berkeley or Oakland that they'd deign to move would be to a
SF News Visualize A Map Of SF If Its Density Matched That Of Other Major Cities In the constantly simmering debate over how dense San Francisco ought to be and at what exact density it loses its soul or whatever, a recent visual might help us compare our population
Arts & Entertainment Map Du Jour: SF Transit Stops, By Hashtag A new map of the city's main transit lines, pointed out by Curbed, attempts to rename many of the stops using actual geotagged Instagram data indicating the most popular thing or destination at
Arts & Entertainment See How The Bay Area (And The Planet) Changed Over 3 Decades With Google Timelapse Starting in 2013, Google invited us to step right up and "watch the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, and the impressive urban expansion of
SF News Interactive Map: Syringes And Poop Have Spiked On SF Streets, Says Annual City Report It's that time of year again! 2003's Prop C mandated that the beautiful City of San Francisco issue an annual report on the state of our dear sweet streets and sidewalks, and here
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News Fly Above The Mission With This 3D Drone-Made Map Have you ever dreamt you're a bird, flying over a familiar city now foreign with new perspective? Operators of first-person-view drones often talk of experiencing a similar feeling — being "out of body" as
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Brief History Of Silicon Valley — Which Does Not Include San Francisco, FYI An apparently new outfit called VanDeGraph just produced this YouTube explainer for everyone who doesn't understand the difference between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, or what defines the Bay Area. The video features
Arts & Entertainment SF Map Composed Entirely Of Street, Place Names Will Delight Type Enthusiasts Maps of San Francisco can be very grounding. While so many aspects of this city may change — buildings rising and falling, people coming and going — the basic geography/cartography of our peninsula tends
Arts & Entertainment A Look At The 'Best-Case Scenario' For 2050 Bay Area Transit Bay Area denizens love making "dream" maps of public transit. The reality, of course, is that the construction of new lines, tracks, and whatever else is required to add new public transit to
SF News When Realtors Say 'Eureka Valley' Instead Of 'Castro,' Is That Just Homophobic? Remember when the Nema building on Market published that neighborhood map that didn't include the Castro but in its place was "Eureka Valley/Dolores Heights." Well, it's long been common custom for SF
SF News This Map Shows You Where All SF Commuters Call Home On the average weekday, San Francisco gains about 160,000 more bodies in the form of workers who commute in from various Bay Area counties, and counties even further to our north, south,
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they're at $3,
Arts & Entertainment Urban Dictionary Definitions Of Bay Area Places, Mapped Much like the "Judgmental Maps" of the South Bay and San Francisco before it, a new cartographical catastrophe awaits in the Bay Area according to Urban Dictionary. The premise: Place the definitions of
SF News Study Suggests You Should Just Park Your Car In Noe Valley A new study looking at the availability of parking by neighborhood tells us a lot of what we already know about San Francisco — parking is terrible! The study's intended purpose is to inform
SF News Video: Tron-Like 3D Market Street Map Created By Laser Truck This past Sunday saw a strange sight, even by Market Street standards, when a laser-equipped motorcade made its sluggish way down Market Street. But perhaps you missed the LiDAR truck, which needed the
SF News Ten Years Of Bay Area Traffic Fatalities Mapped It's a powerful data set — ten years of fatal traffic collisions, mapped and collated, ready to be pored over. Compiled together in an interactive map, the data highlights pockets of San Francisco that
SF News The Mission And Bernal Voted For Props F And I, But Not So Much Elsewhere It turns out that the majority of Yes on F and Yes on I votes in Tuesday's election came, perhaps not surprisingly, from District 9, which includes most of the Mission and all
SF News Newsflash: Most Of San Francisco's Streets Were Named After Men You can tell a lot about the history of a place by its street names — Houston, Texas has Robert E. Lee Road, for example — but what, if anything, does the gender breakdown of
SF News Interactive Map: These Famous Neighborhoods Across The World Cost The Same As Yours Does If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, surely you do so for a reason — perhaps some of the 50 we listed a few months ago that signal our continued radness. Maybe
Arts & Entertainment Every Film Shoot In SF Since 2013, Mapped A site called Metrocosm gathered every shoot notice posted or distributed to San Francisco city residents since early 2013 to create this interactive map. The map is an interesting snapshot of just how
SF News Map Renames SF Streets After Tech Companies To Make Our Heads Explode The Lyft Embarcadero. Postmates Street. IDGA Ventures USA Boulevard. Those are just a few new names for San Francisco thoroughfares according to the latest shudder-inducing experiment from mapping software company CartoDB. In it,
