Historical San Francisco Map Update

Recently added to the Historical San Francisco Map:

Seals Stadium
Battery Spencer
Embarcadero Freeway
Sutro Pleasure Grounds / Firth Wheel

 

Historical San Francisco Updates

I’ve made some recent updates to the Historical San Francisco map on Wayfaring:

Playland Amusement Park
Kezar Stadium
Portola Drive
Buried ship Candace
Meigg’s Wharf
Broadway Wharf
Potrero Point
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Seals Stadium

Web 2.0 Innovation Map

I came across this cool Web 2.0 Innovation Map on Google Maps Mania. Zoom into your part of the country to find Web 2.0 sites/services in your area. A couple of weeks ago, I created something similar to this on a much, much smaller scale (SF Bay Area only) on Wayfaring.

Marina Girl defined

Saw this on SFist / prosaic:There is a hilarious description of the “Marina Girl” on Wikipedia. The definition is very elaborate. Here’s just a portion of it…
“…When a Marina Girl turns 30, as the majority of the population is, she goes from being known as a Marina Girl, aka Turf, and is now [...]

1906 San Francisco Earthquake Photo Exhibits

Yesterday, there was an article in the Chronicle about two new photographic exhibits commemorating the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: 1906 Earthquake: A Disaster in Pictures (SF MOMA) and After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (Legion of Honor).
Related to this, the Bancroft Library has created [...]

SF Bay Area Tech Companies on a Google Map

I was thinking recently about the idea of a Google Maps mash-up with a job search site, such as Hot Jobs or Monster.com. The idea would be that you could enter in some kind of search filterting criteria – type of company, company size, public vs private, tag names, etc. The filtering would [...]

Wayfaring Map: Hills of San Francisco

My third Wayfaring Map: Hills of San Francisco

Wayfaring Map: SF – Tiburon Bike Ride

I’ve posted another Wayfaring map. This one maps out the San Francisco – Tiburon bike ride. It’s about 17.5 miles from San Francisco to Tiburon. Grab a few drinks at Sam’s and then hop on the ferry back to SF. The map includes these “waypoints“:

Blazing Saddles Bike Rentals (2715 Hyde Street)
Fort [...]

San Francisco November Sunsets

The sunsets have been pretty amazing in the SF Bay Area the past couple of days, especially the sunset on Sunday the 13th. Unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me but I was able to find some good shots on Flickr. As far as I can tell, these are all shots [...]

Goats in San Francisco

Goats R Us (yes, that’s the name of the company that owns these goats) returned to my neighborhood today to clear some brush. They usually stay for a few days, leaving behind a barren hill.