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UrbanMap: Bay Area Land Use Websites

GENERAL ATLAS/VIRTUAL TOURING
http://maps.google.com/ PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area for Selected Streets NOTES: Detailed maps, satellite photographs, and combinations of the two, for locating specific addresses, planning routes, and general orientation.
http://earth.google.com/ PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Aerial photography rectified to topography for a three-dimensional view of any landscape, with complete user control of altitude, compass direction, and "bird's eye" viewing angle. Numerous types of locational information can be displayed on the aerials, such as roads, schools, and business locations. Shown at right is a westward view of Sausalito.
http://earth.google.com/ PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: San Francisco County, with more cities continuously added. NOTES: Above "Google Earth" three-dimensional aerials combined with three-dimensional drawings of buildings. Google is rumored to be preparing an enhanced version where photos of the actual building facades will be shown on the current gray shapes. Shown at right is downtown San Francisco with Hyatt Hotels identified.
http://local.live.com/ PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: San Francisco County and urban areas of Solano County, with more cities continuously added. NOTES: Low level bird's eye aerial photos for any address from four compass directions
http://www.dataplace.org PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: An incredible wealth of demographic, economic, and housing information from federal agencies, including the Census Bureau, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Internal Revenue Service. Shown on the right are average amount of mortgage loans for multifamily dwellings, per the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
http://yellowpages.superpages.com PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Find and simultaneously map all locations of business establishments for any product or service by yellow pages categories. Shown at right are the locations and contact information of 14 sushi restaurants. See also www.411.com.
http://www.runningmap.com/ PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Measure the exact distance between any two points on a map, or any number of sequential points, via simple point-and-click.
http://www.californiacoastline.org/ PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Pacific Ocean Coastline of Nine County Bay Area NOTES: High quality, low altitude, sequential, GIS-registered bird's eye photographs along the entire California coast.
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/GIS/index.htm PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Bay Area NOTES: The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) portal to dozens of conventional and GIS maps, including many socioeconomic forecast maps from the Association of By Area Governments (ABAG). Shown at right are planned transportation projects in Contra Costa County.
http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm PURPOSE: General Atlas / Virtual Touring COVERAGE: Entire Bay Area and the rest of the country. NOTES: "The National Map" provides public access to high-quality, geospatial data and information from multiple federal government agencies to help support decisionmaking by resource managers and the public. The viewer includes GIS tools such as measuring a distance and elevation at any selected site.
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
http://www.realestateabc.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Recent Sales of Single Family Homes/Condominiums COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Click on any marker for additional information about the property.
http://www.homepricerecords.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Detailing Sales of Single Family Homes/Condominiums COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Click on any marker for additional information about the property.
http://www.zillow.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Home value estimates COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Includes sales histories, comparable sales, and property assessments. Birds eye photos available only where local.live.com is operational. Property boundaries available for many but not all jurisdictions.
http://www.housingmaps.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Single Family Homes/Condominiums Currently For Sale; Apartments For Rent; Apartment Sublets Availablity COVERAGE: Selected cities throughout the nine county Bay Area. NOTES: All information is taken directly from http://sfbay.craigslist.org.
http://www.ziprealty.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Single Family Homes/Condominiums Currently For Sale. COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Though covering the entire Bay Area, data on some cities is sparse.
http://www.trulia.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Single Family Homes/Condominiums Currently For Sale. COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Though covering the entire Bay Area, data on some cities may be sparse.
http://mynewplace.com/ PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Apartments For Rent COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: Features "cash back" inducements on many apartments.
http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/CA-San-Francisco-Map.html PURPOSE: Residential Real Estate; Ratings of Apartments By Tenants COVERAGE: Entire Nine County Bay Area NOTES: "The largest online rating community for rental housing."
SOURCE: Castle Consulting for ULI San Francisco

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