San Francisco
37.77°N, 122.42°W · California, United States
San Francisco is built across more than 40 hills on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.
- Coordinates
- 37.77°N, 122.42°W
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States
About this San Francisco poster
This poster renders the terrain around San Francisco, United States as a stack of ridgelines — a topographic “joy plot” inspired by the famous Unknown Pleasures album cover. Each line traces the real elevation profile of one slice of the landscape, drawn from digital elevation data, so the peaks, valleys and ridges you see are the actual shape of the ground.
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