What Parking SF covers in San Francisco.
Parking SF focuses on the part of the city where public data is strong enough to support an honest map: San Francisco metered street blocks.
The core model covers San Francisco metered street blocks, then layers in operating schedules, off-hours parking pressure, and Bay Wheels mobility context. Private garages, private lots, and true live curb inventory are outside the current scope.
Core map coverage
The base geography comes from public SF Open Data parking meter locations. Parking SF groups those meter points into metered street blocks so the map can compare one block against another across a full week.
Why the product stops there
The product stays inside the metered-block boundary because that is where the public source data is consistent enough to model demand. Unmetered residential streets, private garages, private lots, and unofficial parking inventories do not have the same public-data reliability.
Additional context layers
Coverage is not just about meter locations. Parking SF also uses operating schedules to know when meter activity is a trustworthy signal, 311 complaint patterns to estimate off-hours pressure, and Bay Wheels data as an optional mobility overlay.
Official source set
- SF Open Data: Parking Meters: Active meter locations, street-block grouping inputs, and neighborhood context.
- SF Open Data: Parking Meter Operating Schedules: Meter operating schedules used to determine which hours should rely on metered demand.
- SF Open Data: 311 Cases: Parking enforcement complaints used to estimate off-hours parking pressure.
- SF Open Data: Parking Supply - Street Segment Data: Street-segment parking supply reference used as a stable context layer for block estimates.
- Bay Wheels GBFS Station Information: Station metadata used for the Bay Wheels overlay and station matching.
- Bay Wheels Monthly Trip Data: Recent monthly trip files used to build a typical-week bike-share demand overlay.