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I'm curious to see an SF version, though I wonder how you would sufficiently render such a dense and hilly city in this perspective.
by bsimpson 8y ago
I'm curious to see an SF version, though I wonder how you would sufficiently render such a dense and hilly city in this perspective.
- schoen 8y agoThere's a widely-available "San Francisco Bike Map and Walking Guide" http://www.rufusguides.com/sanfran.html http://www.rufusguides.com/sanfran.html and SFBC has a (large!) vector PDF version on their site https://www.sfbike.org/download/map.pdf https://www.sfbike.org/download/map.pdf This map uses shading to indicate how steep the gradient of each individual city block is, but interestingly the shading doesn't show the direction of that gradient, so you don't immediately know whether it will be uphill or downhill. But the map also includes contour lines, so if you look closely, you can figure it out from the contours even if you're unfamiliar with the neighborhood. On the other hand, if you're generally familiar with the neighborhood, the shading might be helpful by itself because you might have an intuition about when you're going to be going uphill and when you're going to be going downhill. I agree that replicating the cool visualization method from the linked article might be tricky in San Francisco for the exact reasons you mention.