London / San Francisco comparison

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jeremiah_owyang says:

Yes SF is very small
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

markadm says:

This and London / Bay Area are excellent. How did you do them? And can you do it with Edinburgh & the Lothians?
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Stephanie Booth says:

Ooh interesting! That's just what I wanted to see.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Markadm:

I simply loaded SF and London into Google maps, and zoomed them into the same scale - both to the 10k mark on the scale to be exact.

As it turned out, because one is Navteq and the other Teleatlas the scales were slightly different so I imported them into Photoshop, worked out the pixel sizes of the 10 scale and resized one of the maps down by that percentage to get an equal 1:1 fit.

Then I simply selected the water around San Fran and placed it on top of the map.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Just_Tom says:

That's pretty handy, in my head SF is smaller than that. I guess that's the wide roads and cheap cabs phenomenon at work.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Darren Waters says:

Actually that makes me feel SF is much bigger than I thought. Riding the cable car from market to fisherman's wharf - i never realised that was the equivalent of east of the City to Kensignton.

Great idea btw.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

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