San Francisco

BART Maps Go Linear
BART, the San Francisco Bay area rapid transit network, is getting new network maps, SF Weekly reports. The new maps will, in the words of a BART spokesman, “have more straight lines” in the idiom of other, diagrammatic maps of… »
Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 8:40 PM
Categories: Mass Transit, San Francisco
Google Maps Street View
The big news so far from Where 2.0 is the announcement of Google’s street-level imagery for five U.S. cities — Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and (of course) San Francisco — which, in a fit of originality, they’re… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Categories: Cities, New York, Online Maps, Roads, San Francisco, Video
MacArthur Maze vs. U.S. Route 90
Some more material about updating road data after disasters that I missed the first time around (and am only getting to now). Via Mapping Hacks, a San Francisco Chronicle article that discussed updating driving directions in the wake of… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Hurricanes 2005, Online Maps, Roads, San Francisco
How Online Maps Update Their Data After Major Road Closures
This week has revealed a lot about how the online mapping sites respond to disasters that close major routes and affect driving directions. Within two days of the MacArthur Maze freeway collapse in Oakland, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest… »
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Online Maps, Roads, San Francisco, Seattle
San Francisco Fire Insurance Maps
Alberto has uploaded a collection of microfilm copies of San Francisco fire insurance maps dating from around 1905 — which wuld have been just before things got very interesting indeed from a fire perspective. The trouble with microform copies… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, San Francisco
High School Student Creates Map of Piedmont
A 15-year-old Oakland high school student has, for a school internship project, created a map of Piedmont, California (a small city of 11,000 people completely surrounded by Oakland) “that shows not only the city’s streets but all its community amenities,… »
Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 at 10:12 AM
Categories: San Francisco
Cabspotting
Cabspotting, which went live on Thursday, generates a real-time map of taxi movements by displaying the last four hours of trips by GPS-equipped taxicabs in San Francisco. (For some reason this reminds me of the cell phone map of Graz… »
Posted on Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 8:37 AM
Categories: San Francisco, Tracerouting
There’s Always Room for San Francisco
Not exactly a map, but it’s close enough — it’s a city model, right? — and it’s cool: San Francisco in Jell-O (see also)…. »
Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 7:59 AM
Categories: Art, San Francisco
iPod Subway Maps
If you’ve got an iPod with a colour screen, you can put subway maps on it. It’s a simple matter to put digital images on an iPod; where maps are concerned, though, it’s a challenge to make sure they’re legible… »
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 at 8:08 AM
Categories: Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Mass Transit, Mobile Devices, New York, San Francisco

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