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maps.google.com

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.
earth.google.com

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.
earth.google.com

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.
local.live.com

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.

dataplace.org

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.
yellowpages.superpages.com

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. 
runningmap.com

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.
californiacoastline.org

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.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission GIS Portal

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.
U.S. Geologic Survey

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.

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