Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Mapping Hiv/Aids Inward San Francisco


The San Francisco Department of Public Health has released an Atlas of HIV/AIDS inwards San Francisco. The map helps position areas of the urban heart amongst relatively high rates of novel infection too assist direct the placement of prevention services.

The map reveals that the Castro remains abode to the largest unwrap of those living amongst HIV/AIDS too those newly infected. The map includes information from 2003-2010 too tin live on filtered past times year, sex, historic stream too race. It likewise possible to explore survival rates inwards each of the San Francisco neighborhoods.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

San Francisco's Literature Mapped


'Occasionally a cable machine passed, trundling heavily, amongst a strident whirring of jostled drinking glass ...' - from McTeague (1899) a new past times Frank Norris

Ever since the days of the Californian gilt rush San Francisco has held a particular lay inwards the myths as well as literature of America. To celebrate San Francisco's condition every bit 1 of the close vibrant literary cities inwards the footing the San Francisco Chronicle has created The Bay Area Literature Map.

The map features locations of booksellers, writers' passages related to locations inwards the city, literary landmarks as well as highlights 300 authors who alive inwards the Bay Area. The map likewise shows the dates as well as locations for events taking placing inwards the metropolis during this month's Litquake literary festival.


During this month's Litquake you lot tin dismiss likewise accept a cycling tour of the city's literary history using the Bikes to Books map. This 7.1 mile cycling tour takes inwards the 12 San Francisco streets named for authors as well as artists as well as a release of other of import locations inwards the city's literary heritage.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Mapping Ellis Act Evictions Inwards San Francisco


The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has created a bully animated timeline map of Ellis Act evictions inward San Francisco from 1997 to 2013.

The Ellis Act Map includes a elementary 'play' option to stance animated map markers displayed on the map inward chronological guild from 1997 through to August of this year. The map besides features a slide command that allows yous to command the timeline manually.

Each marking on the map includes a smart animation number that emphasizes its appearance on the map during the timeline playback.

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Mapping Ellis Act Evictions Inwards San Francisco


The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has created a bully animated timeline map of Ellis Act evictions inward San Francisco from 1997 to 2013.

The Ellis Act Map includes a elementary 'play' option to stance animated map markers displayed on the map inward chronological guild from 1997 through to August of this year. The map besides features a slide command that allows yous to command the timeline manually.

Each marking on the map includes a smart animation number that emphasizes its appearance on the map during the timeline playback.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

The Wheel Routes Of San Francisco


Cyclodeo has arrived inwards San Francisco. Cyclodeo is a actually useful application that enables cyclists to preview a route on a Google Map as well as on video earlier project the journeying past times bike.

This agency Cyclodeo's mapped videos of cycle routes are at nowadays available inwards New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Eindhoven as well as San Francisco. The novel San Francisco coverage includes 92 routes representing merely about 150 km of the city's roads.

Here are some instantly links to a few of the best novel videos of San Francisco cycle routes:

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Ellis Act Evictions On Google Maps

Back inward Oct nosotros reviewed the Ellis Act Evictions Map, which features an animated timeline map of Ellis Act evictions inward San Francisco from 1997 to 2013. Since thus the Anti Eviction Mapping Project has created 2 to a greater extent than maps to highlight the trial of the Ellis Act on San Francisco's renting citizens.


The Ellis Acts Against Seniors as well as People With Disabilities map visualizes the reveal of seniors as well as disabled tenants over the final three years. The map likewise displays data nearly the landlords responsible, including those who convey evicted numerous tenants nether the act.


The No Fault Evictions map shows the place of all no-fault evictions filed betwixt Jan 1997 as well as Oct 14, 2013, including Ellis Act Evictions, Owner-Move-In Evictions, as well as Demolition Evictions.

Saturday, November 27, 2021

The Faux Streets Of San Francisco


The Transit Map of San Francisco MTA is a real-time faux map of San Francisco's bus, streetcar, too subway scheme services, based on the MTA timetables. The map animates the movements of the city's buses, streetcars too subway scheme trains on a Google Map.

The vehicle movements on the map are determined yesteryear the timetables provided inward the GTFS dataset of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The map industrial plant yesteryear plugging the city's  GTFS dataset into Vasile Cotovanu's Transit Map library.

Vasile has likewise released the code for the GTFS plug-in equally well. The code converts a prepare of GTFS files into a SQLite database too the GeoJSONs needed yesteryear the Transit Map library. So if you lot desire to practise your ain faux animated map of a city's transit network all you lot postulate to practise is to pick out handgrip of the city's GTFS dataset, use GTFS-viz to practise the database too GeoJSON's too and thus plug the information into the Transit Map library. Voila you lot convey your real ain animated faux transit map.

Saturday, October 16, 2021

How To Visualize Criminal Offence Past Times Location


The effectiveness of a practiced criminal offence map owes a lot to the flexibility it provides users inwards filtering the visualization of criminal offence past times location, type of crime, engagement together with fourth dimension of day. The San Francisco Crimespotting map provides a keen example of how you lot tin flame hand users command over the visualization of criminal offence data.

The map uses colored map markers to exhibit the place of unlike types of crime. You tin flame filter the types of criminal offence displayed past times using the controls inwards the map sidebar. You tin flame every bit good mouse-over the private crimes listed inwards the sidebar to persuasion all those crimes highlighted on the map.

The 'date' together with 'time of day' controls every bit good permit you lot to filer the results shown on the map past times whatsoever engagement make or for whatsoever menstruum or combination of periods during the day.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Mapping Hiv/Aids Inward San Francisco


The San Francisco Department of Public Health has released an Atlas of HIV/AIDS inwards San Francisco. The map helps position areas of the urban heart amongst relatively high rates of novel infection too assist direct the placement of prevention services.

The map reveals that the Castro remains abode to the largest unwrap of those living amongst HIV/AIDS too those newly infected. The map includes information from 2003-2010 too tin live on filtered past times year, sex, historic stream too race. It likewise possible to explore survival rates inwards each of the San Francisco neighborhoods.

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Mapping The Bicycle Thief


Seismograph's map of Where Your Bicycle is Most Likely to Get Stolen inwards San Francisco shows yous where inwards 2013 inwards San Francisco bikes were stolen from the most. Judging past times the map it mightiness survive a expert persuasion non to green your bike on Market Street, at the Ferry Building or exterior Mission BART.

The map uses an interesting organisation of concentric circles to exhibit locations where to a greater extent than than i bike was stolen. You tin mouse-over the private circles to let on the fourth dimension as well as appointment of each bike theft. Seismograph too render a useful bar nautical chart that shows yous at what fourth dimension of 24-hour interval your bike is virtually probable to expire stolen.

Monday, May 3, 2021

San Francisco Edifice Superlative Map


At starting fourth dimension glance this map of San Francisco edifice acme mightiness hold back similar it couldn't instruct you lot anything new. After all it isn't every bit if those tall buildings inwards the Financial District are trying to hide. However it is a pretty looking map, amongst each edifice footprint colored to demo the acme of the building.

If you lot do desire to acquire something novel you lot tin post away mouse-over private edifice plots on the SF Building Height map to discovery the acme of a building. If that has whet your appetite for a petty learning together with hence you lot tin post away abide by out how to brand the map on this ArcGIS to Mapbox tutorial.

Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Traveling Salesman Employment Alongside Traffic


Over the years on Google nosotros get got posted a position out of maps that help to solve the perennial Traveler Salesman Problem (TSP). The TSP is the challenge of finding the shortest route which takes inwards a position out of waypoints.

The developers at Forio decided that the TSP was non challenging plenty as well as and then gear upwards themselves the additional challenge of finding the quickest route taking into concern human relationship real-time traffic conditions. The resulting Forio Route Optimizer finds the quickest route, taking inwards a position out of stops as well as factoring inwards the actual traffic on the roads.

The Route Optimizer comes alongside a position out of representative routes inwards San Francisco, including a majority crawl as well as a sightseeing tour of the city.

Forio has written-up an interesting weblog post on how the Route Optimizer was created, including a link to the origin code of the Optimizer on GitHub.

Friday, March 19, 2021

Building Permits Inwards San Francisco


If yous desire to detect out nearly edifice alerts as well as planning applications inwards San Francisco yous should cheque out this novel map from buildingeye.

Using the map yous tin search yesteryear address to detect out nearly near-by planning applications, what phase the applications are at, the value of the projects as well as who they are managed by. The map also includes drawing tools to search inside your ain defined areas.

Registered users of buildingeye tin click through to thought whatsoever selected planning applications. They tin also sign-up to have email alerts when whatsoever futurity applications are made inwards their neighborhood.

Buildingeye excogitation to expand their coverage inwards the real close future. Palo Alto as well as Corvallis, Oregon should move coming presently as well as buildingeye are working on providing coverage inwards cities across the United States.

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

The Streetcars Of San Francisco


I've ever been a big fan of Vasile Coțovanu real-time transit maps. Using Vasile's Transit Map library it is possible to do a fake real-time map for whatsoever transit arrangement inwards the world.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 practiced event of the library inwards activeness is the Transit Map of San Francisco MTA.This Google Map shows the real-time seat of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency buses together with trams based on the published MTA timetable. The vehicles, moving inwards real-time on the map, are represented past times markers displaying the road number.

The map plant past times plugging the city's GTFS dataset into Vasile's Transit Map library. Vasile has released the code for the GTFS plug-in equally well. The code converts a gear upwards of GTFS files into a SQLite database together with the GeoJSON's needed past times the Transit Map library.

If y'all desire to do your ain fake animated map of a city's transit network all y'all ask to do is to choose grip of the city's GTFS dataset, use GTFS-viz to do the database together with GeoJSON's together with and thence plug the information into the Transit Map library.

You volition together with thence convey your rattling ain animated fake transit map.

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Mapping The Hills Of San Francisco


This San Francisco Streets past times Slope map shows you lot the place of San Francisco's steepest streets as well as too shows you lot how you lot tin road but about them. The map tin thus last used equally a quick guide to avoiding the city's biggest hills.

Roads on the map are colored past times the slope of the climb. Red indicates the steepest streets as well as the flattest streets are shown inwards green. If you lot click on 2 locations on the map you lot tin sentiment a road which avoids the steepest climbs.


You powerfulness non dearest climbing hills but you lot but powerfulness dearest travelling downhill. In that illustration you lot powerfulness desire to purpose the Hill Mapper San Francisco, which makes dandy purpose of the Google Maps API Elevation Service to exhibit the management of slopes on San Francisco's streets.

The uphill streets are colored cerise as well as the bluish streets instruct downhill. The darker the color of the street, the steeper the hill. If you lot deed your place on the map the colors of the streets dynamically update to reverberate the novel directions of the slopes, relevant to your novel position.


If you lot actually loathe hills you lot tin too purpose the Flat Route Finder to uncovering cycling routes that avoid the steepest slopes. The Flat Route Finder uses the Google Maps superlative service to advise the flattest possible cycling route. Two superlative graphs are too provided to exhibit you lot the steepest parts of the road as well as the road itself is color-coded to exhibit you lot the easiest as well as close hard stages of your journey.

If you lot don't similar the hold off of the suggested road (or perversely you lot desire to uncovering the steepest route) you lot tin drag the road but about to sentiment the superlative as well as the difficulty of choice routes.


Bikesy is some other dandy wheel routing application that tin tending you lot uncovering the flattest, safest or fastest routes anywhere inwards the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bikesy tin furnish you lot alongside wheel routes that may last slightly longer than the quickest road but include less steep climbs. Each road comes alongside an superlative profile for your ride, as well as so you lot tin country inwards advance where as well as when you lot volition confront the toughest climbs.

For each asking Bikesy suggests a set out of dissimilar routes. You tin conduct from the flattest route, a road that takes inwards reasonable climbs or routes that create got inwards the steepest hills. You tin too conduct the 'safe', safer' or 'safest' route, which takes into concern human relationship wheel lanes as well as paths.  

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Crap On A Map


Apparently people defecating on the streets is a affair inwards San Francisco. At to the lowest degree it is a big plenty work for Jennifer Wong to intend it warrants its ain interactive map.

Jennifer has used San Francisco Department of Public Works information of sidewalk cleanings for 'human waste materials or urine' to create the (Human) Wasteland map. The map includes a steaming pile of heat-map thought of human waste materials inwards San Francisco, which simply powerfulness attention you lot avoid wading through human excrement on your side past times side trip some town.

The map makes role of the Google Maps Styled Maps characteristic to supply a context appropriate colored base of operations map. The same 'appropriate' colors are used inwards the rut map layer. If you lot desire you lot tin filter the crap on the map past times calendar month together with search the map past times address.

Friday, April 17, 2020

Escape From Alcatraz - The Map


The Washington Post has published an interesting concern human relationship of the escape of 3 detainees from Alcatraz inwards June 1962. No i knows if the 3 prisoners survived their escape endeavor or died patch trying to navigate the rigid currents of the San Francisco Bay,

The Washington Post's report, The Alcatraz Escapees Could convey Survived, is based on the run of Dutch researchers who convey been working on a model which simulates the crusade of particles together with detritus inwards bays. Based on this model the Dutch researchers convey concluded that the 3 Alcatraz prisoners may convey survived, exactly alone if they left the isle at the correct time.

The study includes 2 animated CartoDB maps, i showing the worst illustration scenario together with i showing the best illustration scenario. Both maps role tidal records to model the water-flow inwards the San Francisco Bay on the flush of the escape.

As the animation plays out on both maps y'all tin sentiment the probable rails of the escapees based on the dissimilar times during the flush when they could convey left Alcatraz. The animated boats on the map are colored to present the fourth dimension of escape. In the best illustration scenario, every bit long every bit the escapees left earlier 1 a.m. together with paddled north, they may convey made it to the due north side of the Golden Gate Bridge together with freedom.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Mapping Oakland Constabulary Killings


Over the final few years has featured a few maps from San Francisco's Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. These include the Ellis Act Evictions Map, an animated timeline map of Ellis Act evictions, the Ellis Acts Against Seniors too People With Disabilities map, which visualizes the expose of seniors too disabled tenants evicted over the final iii years, too the No Fault Evictions map, showing the place of all no-fault evictions filed betwixt Jan 1997 too Oct 14, 2013.

The Anti-Evictions Mapping Project has instantly released a map of Killings yesteryear Law Enforcement inwards Oakland. This map shows the locations where ninety people convey been killed yesteryear the Oakland Police Department, the California Highway Patrol, too the BART Police inwards Oakland since 1970.

The markers on the map betoken the race of each victim. The Anti-Evictions Mapping Project were able to seat the race of 78 of the victims. Of those 78 victims 99% of them were people of color.

The Best Places To Alive Inward The Bay Area


Teleport is an interesting real-estate search engine for the Bay Area. Tell Teleport where you lot work, how far you lot wishing to commute too how much you lot wishing to pay for housing too it volition recommend the best areas for you lot to alive inwards the Bay Area.

At the midpoint of Teleport is your preferred commute time. Enter a commute fourth dimension into Teleport too your agency of move too you lot volition live on shown a estrus map of recommend areas inside accomplish of your workplace. The areas marked inwards light-green are the best matches for your search.

You tin add together a publish of other filters to your search. These include Food & Nightlife, Outdoor Recreation, Sports, Safety, Schools too Internet Access.

Clicking 1 of the recommended areas on the map brings upwards a comprehensive neighborhood guide. The conduct to each neighborhood provides a wealth of data close the area, including reviews of local bars too restaurants, utilization opportunities, run spaces too safety.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Owning Oakland


Burrtio Justice owns a draw of piece of occupation solid inwards Oakland, California. Of shape Burrito Justice's household unit of measurement didn't ever ain this land. In fact this minor patch of Oakland has a long history of ownership.

For many centuries this business office of the basis was inhabited yesteryear the Ohlone people. One hateful solar daytime unopen to foreigners arrived together with told the Ohlone that this solid reason genuinely belonged to the Spanish. In 1820 the Castilian gave a solid reason grant to Luis MarĂ­a Peralta. Luis Peralta staked out his claim (which contained almost all of what is instantly known equally Oakland together with Berkeley) together with and therefore began his ownership of a large patch of California.

Over the years this large packet of solid reason has been subdivided into ever smaller plots together with sold off. That's how Burrito Justice ended upwardly amongst his draw of piece of occupation solid inwards Oakland. You tin strength out traverse through the history of this ownership of Oakland inwards a novel Leaflet powered map.

The History of a Piece of Oakland is a timeline together with map which shows how the ownership of Oakland has changed over the years. Start inwards the twelvemonth 1820 together with you lot tin strength out sentiment the extent of Luis Peralta's estate. As you lot progress through the timeline you lot tin strength out follow the ownership trail of the solid reason on which Burrito Justice's dwelling draw of piece of occupation solid instantly stands.