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Experimental SFO Museum Wayfinding Service

This is an experimetal wayfinding service for routing between waypoints at SFO and galleries and public art works at SFO Museum. It's experimental in the sense that it mostly works but is understood to still be potentially inaccurate and sometimes even incorrect. It may also still have user interface and accessibility issues that need to be addressed. Here is a short list of knowns-knowns:

  • Locations for some waypoints, particularly public works, are still approximate. These waypoints are closer to where they should be than not but their location on the map may not reflect their exact reality yet.
  • Some routes are missing necessary waypoints in order for that route to make sense. For example not all the doors at SFO have corresponding waypoints which means that, were to youu follow routing instructions precisely, you might be directed you to walk through a wall. Please do not try to walk through any walls at SFO.
  • Routes do not take in to account (or weight) whether or not a given path requires going out of, and back through, TSA security checkpoints.
  • Some routes are lacking in the necessary metadata to weight them relative to other options or to exclude them altogether. For example, at least once I've been instructed to travel through the BART station to reach a point in the Internation Terminal. There's nothing to prevent you from doing this but it will probably cost you a BART fare that you weren't expecting.

If you're curious to see all the waypoints and their relationship to another have a look at the Wayfinding Service Network Overview webpage. It is also possible to review individual waypoints and their related adjacencies using the Wayfinding Service Edge Inspection Tool.

Feedback

We are making this experimental service publicly available in the hopes of soliciting feedback and to learn by doing.

We welcome your feedback about this tool. We are especially interested to know if, and where, the tool doesn't work as you expected. Please fill out the form below to submit your feedback. While there is no immediate timeline for fixes simple things will be addressed as quickly as possible and harder things will be added to the list so that they aren't forgotten.

Data

The underlying data for the waypoints used in this tool are available as openly-licensed data in the sfomuseum-data-wayfinding GitHub repository.