http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/squeezing-san-francisco/ Adventures in maps, cartography, visualization, and Flash Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/squeezing-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-9108 talcum Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:09 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=12#comment-9108 I live in San Francisco and grew up just 32 miles north-east from there in Concord and I collect maps. Years ago there used to be a touristy-type map of SF provided by a similar-type outfit as the map in your post (hotel, rental car agency - I'm not 100% sure) that actually cut out the city's middle section entirely just a few blocks west of Van Ness Ave through to about Central or Lyon. Unfortunately unsuspecting tourists thought that they could simply walk a few blocks from their hotel to the Haight and/or Golden Gate Park. Even more unfortunate was the type of neighborhood(s) actually occupied the in-between, omitted space. The Western Addition isn't what I would consider to be one San Francisco's more crime-ridden enclaves but even I have been robbed there once at gun-point ( specifically Page at Octavia) and I was dressed like bum. I have no hard data and but I from what I remember several muggings took place before the "helpful" map was scraped for one similar to the one you now have. I live in San Francisco and grew up just 32 miles north-east from there in Concord and I collect maps. Years ago there used to be a touristy-type map of SF provided by a similar-type outfit as the map in your post (hotel, rental car agency – I’m not 100% sure) that actually cut out the city’s middle section entirely just a few blocks west of Van Ness Ave through to about Central or Lyon. Unfortunately unsuspecting tourists thought that they could simply walk a few blocks from their hotel to the Haight and/or Golden Gate Park. Even more unfortunate was the type of neighborhood(s) actually occupied the in-between, omitted space. The Western Addition isn’t what I would consider to be one San Francisco’s more crime-ridden enclaves but even I have been robbed there once at gun-point ( specifically Page at Octavia) and I was dressed like bum. I have no hard data and but I from what I remember several muggings took place before the “helpful” map was scraped for one similar to the one you now have.

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