San Francisco Map

From my trip to San Francisco a couple of years ago, I have a lonely planet map. This is something which I have held on to because I find the design of this particular map to be really good. The scale of the map is really good because you can see the whole city on the map, the way it is indexed is really well done too.

One thing I find interesting is looking at the different areas within a city and the way the streets are laid out in that particular area. The city area is very structure with a well formed grid while the further out you go the more relaxed the grid becomes. With the San Francisco map the grid is very structure in the city are, becoming more relaxed towards the twin peaks area which is away from the city area. This could be because of the way the land is (towards twin peaks area its not as flat) but in saying that there are areas which do appear to have a grid layout but are quite elevated (hills). Without having visited San Francisco you wouldn't be able to tell all this from the map.

Earlier I commented that maps contain so much information about one particular place. In saying there are certain aspects which maps don't display which can only be experienced by seeing the place in 3D opposed to 2D.