Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Mapping

New California Transit Map Simplifies Car-Free Travel Across the State

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 10, 2013 | 12 Comments

Finding a highway map for a road trip is easy, but comprehensive transit maps for car-free travel in California have always been a little harder to come by. Not to worry: Alfred Twu and his team of cartographers have created a map of transit throughout the state. The new map features “both intracity and regional rail […]

Mapping a Fully Transit-Connected Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

Imagine the freedom of being able to hop on a nearby train or bus to reach virtually any place in the Bay Area (and beyond) on an integrated network of reliable transit. That’s the vision cartographer Brian Stokle sought to lay out in a map featured in the latest issue of SPUR‘s monthly magazine, The Urbanist. In a recent […]

Mapping Your City with Pictures Taken by Others

By Matthew Roth | Oct 5, 2010 | 4 Comments

Data visualization is the rage right now, as city managers release ever more information through open source APIs and creative programmers tease out trends in colorful maps and images, beautifully depicting statistics that would otherwise be stuck in a dense spreadsheet only an actuary could love. Media foundations have been busy giving money to pioneering […]

Radical Cartography and Urban Racial Maps

By Matthew Roth | Sep 27, 2010 | 18 Comments

When is a map worth a thousand words? Bill Rankin, who maintains a website called Radical Cartography, has generated buzz with his racial and income maps of Chicago, which can test stereotypes Chicagoans have about the boundaries of their neighborhoods. Rankin notes, for instance, that the boundaries of neighborhoods are always drawn as stark lines […]