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For researchers, planners, journalists and anyone who wants to put San Francisco’s past zoning in a GIS program of their own.
What is here
Lots are today’s parcels, each tagged with the district the historic map put it in. Districts are those same lots dissolved into one shape per district. Scans are the historic map pages themselves, warped to line up with today’s street corners: one citywide image, and the individual sheets. Black-and-white scans are tinted to the paper colour, and printed border rules and binding shadows are erased; nothing is traced or drawn on them.
Lots and districts come as GeoJSON, GeoPackage and Shapefile, in WGS84 (EPSG:4326). The GeoPackage also carries a copy in California State Plane (zone III, feet). Each download includes a README and the license.
This is a reconstruction from scanned maps, read by a program, with some corrections by hand, not an official record. Read how the maps were made and how accurate they are before relying on them.
License and credit
The data is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: share and adapt it for non-commercial use, with credit, under the same license. When you use it, credit it as: “Based on sfzoning.com by Steven Bacio for GrowSF (https://growsf.org)”.
Lot lines are DataSF parcels (San Francisco Open Data). The 1948 atlas images are from the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Files
Data last updated . Sizes are for the downloads as they are.
All files and checksums (JSON)Sheets 1921 (CSV)Sheets 1929 (CSV)Sheets 1935 (CSV)Sheets 1948 (CSV)Sheets 1960 (CSV)Sheets 1964 (CSV)Sheets 1968 (CSV)Sheets 1972 (CSV)Sheets 1975 (CSV)Sheets 1980 (CSV)Sheets 1980-1990-height (CSV)Sheets 1980-1990-su (CSV)Sheets 1980-1990-zoning (CSV)Sheets 1990-1996-height (CSV)Sheets 1990-1996-su (CSV)Sheets 1990-1996-zoning (CSV)Sheets 1996-2000-height (CSV)Sheets 1996-2000-su (CSV)Sheets 1996-2000-zoning (CSV)Sheets 2000-digital-height (CSV)Sheets 2000-digital-su (CSV)Sheets 2000-digital-zoning (CSV)