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Source-of-Income Map, Dolores Park

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 8:10am

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This map is missing "No Income", "Food Blog", and "Cold Beer, Cold Water". But damn.

[Map by David Enos]

8-Bit Mission

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:00am

Categorized: Back in the Day, tchnlgy

Tagged: google maps, Jello Biafra, maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps

If you nerds haven't already heard, Google's big April Fool's joke was to make their maps all 8-bit NES like. And they totally pranked me; I woke up this morning terrified I entered into some sort of Hot Tub Time Machine situation after attending a questionable hot tub party at Jello Biafra's condo.

Turns out everything is cool--good on you Google (and bad on you, Jello Biafra--everyone agreed the "you"-themed Jell-O shots were in bad taste!). Even Google's directions still work:

So if you need me, my bros and I will be at my house trading Pogs.

Leave Your Heart on San Francisco

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:45am

Categorized: Romance & Sex

Tagged: Better than Someecard, gross lovely stuff that we're secretly impressed by, I wrote this entire post just to make a Tony Bennett joke, maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps, Top That Tony Bennett!, Valentine's Day

Leaving the snark, cynicism, and spraypaint aside for a moment, someone got hella creative for Valentine's Day! As Jefferson from Mission Bicycle tells us, one of the shops customer's took his bike, a GPS app, and mapped a heart-shapped loop around San Francisco to create a Valentine for his long-distance girlfriend. What's more? He even braved the Marina to do it. Dedication!

Mission Bike's blog has more, including a brief blurb about the project from the rider, elevation profiles and the number calories burned.

(Thanks Jefferson!)

For Your Consideration: Adorable Map of San Franciscan Animals!

Posted by Alissa on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 9:13am

Categorized: Art - The Canvas, Pets & Animals

Tagged: cute fluffy animals, maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps, this post is topical because it's groundhogs day, you guys like maps right?

Well isn't this just the cutest map of San Francisco you've ever seen?

Oakland artist Naomi Bardoff is pretty spot on with this beautiful watercolor map of SF and the crazy critters that inhabit it.

In the spirit of wanton stereotyping, we thought of a few animals and neighborhoods that were omitted from the map:

11. French bulldogs accompanied by gay dudes in Duboce Park
12. Patricia Dolores!
13. Rats and roaches in the Tenderloin
14. Sharks in the ocean
15. Politicians in Civic Center
16. Cats in the home of every girl living in the Mission, because doesn't every girl living in the Mission seem to have a cat these days?
17. Raccoons in the Panhandle
18. Poorly cared for pitbulls belonging to street kids in the Haight
19. Little dogs in purses in the Marina

Any more to add?

[Found the map on this website, which houses hundreds of handmade maps from artists all over the world. This one of Castro gay bars is another favorite. Check it out!]

Handy Overview of What the San Francisco Bay Area Has to Offer

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 9:46pm

Categorized: Humor, The Memenets

Tagged: maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps, The Mission should be included in 'Mexico' but whatever

I don't know the original source of this, as this was just sent in as an imgur link--and TinEye isn't turning up any results. But, damn.

(Thanks Ben!)

Stuff You Already Knew About Commuter Biking Now In Handy Dandy Infographic

Posted by Alissa on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 9:31am

Categorized: Bicycles

Tagged: bikes, maps, maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps, you guys like maps right?

If I've learned anything about the internet, it's that y'all are suckers for three things: bikes, maps, and infographics. Today's news, out of charming college town Eugene, Oregon, combines all three! Prepare to have your minds blown:

You are almost certainly going to need to enlarge that picture for the full effect, and can do so by clicking on this link.

This map was created by Kory Northrop, a U of O masters candidate in Environmental Studies, and tracks trends in commuter cycling over the last 10 years or so. If you commute by bike, this might not tell you anything new. Yes, theres a shit ton of commuter cyclists in San Francisco - you ride with them in a pack of 40 to and from work every day. Yes, commuter cycling (and the cycling community in general) is male-dominated - nothing new there.

The most interesting part of this study is in the correlation between the rise in government spending on bike/pedestrian infastructure, and the overall decline in bike related fatalities. It would seem as though the government is effectively putting their money to good use in looking out for the interest and safety of urban cyclists, which is pretty rad. Also, there's safety in numbers. As the number of urban cyclists as increased, fatalities have decreased. While you may not like riding around in a pack of old dudes on cruisers who seemingly get joy out of affixing every possible blinking object to themselves/their bikes, at least it's a little safer that way.

Visualizing Mental Maps of San Francisco

Posted by Alissa on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 3:47pm

Categorized: Bernal, Downtown, Haight, Hayes Valley, Marina, Potrero, Richmond

Tagged: maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps

Neighborhoodr clued me in to this awesome new set of San Francisco maps today. Started by a couple of Berkeley students, Visualizing Mental Maps attempts to map how San Franciscans feel about their neighborhoods & the city, and the results are really interesting. From the site:

The Visualizing Mental Maps of San Francisco project taps into San Francisco residents' perceptions of the city and its neighborhoods, which aren't always reflected in the geography of a street map. The first part of the project was a qualitative investigation in which we interviewed residents and asked them to draw pictures of their internal images or "mental maps" of the neighborhoods they lived in and of San Francisco. The second part was the creation of visualizations informed by the qualitative research, resulting in this atlas of mental maps.

One of my favorite parts of their project is Storymaps, where you can hover above a map of SF neighborhoods and see how the study participants characterize them.

I like the one participant who says about the Marina, "Y'know, its not really necessary. I don't really need this."

The map of hills and pedestrian barriers is also a cool reminder of how San Francisco's unique topography dictates neighborhood boundaries and how we move about the city on foot/bike. I've frequently argued that San Francisco really isn't all that hilly, but I think the only reason I feel that way is because I've become so adept at avoiding the hills, especially when biking. When I lived on Fulton & Stanyan, I'd regularly ride a mile out of my way to avoid that steep two block hill on Stanyan between Fell and Fulton. Because I'm lazy.

I just wanted to share this, but you should definitely have a look for yourself because there's waaay more interesting data and pictures on their site than I could possibly hope to unpack in a single blog post. These students really did an amazing job of mapping the spirit of the city in a way that traditional cartography never could. And don't forget to check out the Gallery, featuring drawings of SF maps and neighborhoods from study participants. This one looks like a dinosaur!

Source: Visualizing Mental Maps

WHERE'S THE PINBALL AT?

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 4:42pm

Categorized: Whimsical Bullshit

Tagged: maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps, pinball

While we're on the topic of maps, I'd like to take this chance to remind everyone about this necessary Google Map project some dude named Timothy is running. He's out there mapping all the pinball machines in SF the eastern half of SF, which is a crucial set of data for assholes like me with washer and dryer in-unit and an excess of quarters. All the bars are fairly up-to-date with reviews of the machine's condition and cost breakdowns.

Check it.

HEY INTERNETS YOU LIKE MAPS RIGHT?

Posted by Serg on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 7:48pm

Tagged: color coded blocks are fun right?, maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps

if you want to peep the pdf click the image above and you can look at color coded squares explaing how they plan to build more blocks of boring to fill the streets of Mission Bay so that you can live in a fortress of beige without having to see the people who still walk on the street in a neighborhood where the most interesting building is this parking garage. The park at block P6 was finally opened last month after being wrapped off with chainlink fence for fucking months, I guess the lawn was real fancy or some bullshit.

Mission Loc@l Profiles Eric Fischer

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 2:16pm

Categorized: Back in the Day, People

Tagged: maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps

If you've read any of the various SF blogs over the past few years, there's a good chance you've come across Eric Fischer's work. His flickr account is full of ancient maps, rad data visualizations, scanned photographs from years past, and photos of misspelled street markings. Despite the massive amount of content he posts, we generally don't get to hear much about the work from his voice. Lucky for us, Mission Loc@l got an interview with him:

...he’s spent his adult life trying to make sense of urban geography. “This has been a long obsession of trying to figure out what makes some places work and some places not.”
What works? San Francisco, he says. “It’s one of the few places where for the most part it’s easier to walk places than to drive.” And what doesn’t work? “Des Moines, where you’ve got pedestrian bridges everywhere between buildings so that nobody ever actually goes outside.”
And then there’s the great paradox: “Why does the Las Vegas strip work in spite of itself?” he wonders, citing the large numbers of pedestrians in spite of its inhospitable streetscapes. Could it have anything to do with public drinking? “Maybe,” he shrugs.

Read on.

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Source-of-Income Map, Dolores Park

8-Bit Mission

Leave Your Heart on San Francisco

For Your Consideration: Adorable Map of San Franciscan Animals!

Handy Overview of What the San Francisco Bay Area Has to Offer

Stuff You Already Knew About Commuter Biking Now In Handy Dandy Infographic

Visualizing Mental Maps of San Francisco

WHERE'S THE PINBALL AT?

HEY INTERNETS YOU LIKE MAPS RIGHT?

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