Main sights:Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate Park, Cable Cars, The Presidio, City Hall, Mission San Francisco de Asís, Pier 39, Lombard Street, Legion of Honor, San Francisco Zoo, Fisherman's Wharf. Neighborhoods:Alamo Square, Anza Vista, Ashbury Heights, Balboa Hollow, Balbo...
The cable forms a loop, but the cars do not loop around, they move up and down on their own side. 'aerialway:gondola' Many cars on a looped cable. 'aerialway:mixed_lift' Mix of chair lifts and gondolas on the same line; may change seasonally. 'aerialway:chair_lift' Looped cable ...
orcircumaviation, proposed for thePanama Pacific International Expositionheld in San Francisco in 1915. The map was exhibited at this exposition and won a gold medal for cartography. Some time later, the map was used by both the State of California and the City of Charleston...
shops, and communities in the city's various neighborhoods. The beauty of San Francisco lies in the sum of its parts: each neighborhood has a unique personality and charm, and together they make this city one of the best places on Earth to wander around for an afternoon...
Let me tell you, Avignon is one of the underrated cities in France. By complete coincidence we visited during the Theater and Cinema Festival in July. The medieval city center is packed with theater shows, no cars are allowed in the old town, and people are celebrating for 2-3 weeks. Av...
Walk through the traditional streets, look at the foggy Pacific Ocean in the rain on the roadside, there are gold mining sites here, because you have to go to Yeliu in the afternoon, you can't go too far, look at Wupan pit, Songde monument, and understand the history of the developm...
NOTE:This demoloads precomputed tiles from an S3 bucket. That means you can’t zoom everywhere, but DC, San Francisco, NYC, Berlin, Paris, London, Cape Town should work. OpenGL works quite differently from software rendering (like the 2D<canvas>, or Agg): Instead of calling draw operations...
Here they used the titanium double grip system from the original San Francisco stair case, but this time they had to account for the 60 degree sloping stair on curved panels as opposed to horizontal treads [3]. As a result of this technology, structural beams, columns and other members can...
1The Guide to Riding a San Francisco Cable CarCable Car HistoryThe cable car was introduced to San Francisco on August 2, 1873. Throughout the 1890s, eight companies operated 600 cars which covered 21 cable car routes. The 1906 earthquake destroyed most of the cable car system. Now, only...
summer fog, Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, along with some of the well-known landmarks, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, and cable cars....