Where'd Ya Get That?

It may be because I am addicted to shoes, and thus biased, but I think that one of the most exciting maps on Platial right now is Wendolyne's San Francisco shopping map, Where'd ya get that?.

It's incredible. The woman obviously knows her way around the city, and her way around a local designers' boutique. I'd like to print this map up and use it as a guide book, except I'd miss the great little video interviews she did with shop owners. Most of the Places have wonderful, long, well-written, funny descriptions. She's not writing the hyped-up, Richy Rich, max out your Visa card shopping guide like you get in a magazine. This is the real-life Glamour Gal who pays her own bills, knows quality when she sees it, and tells it like it is. Of Anthropologie, she writes, "Go straight to the sale racks downstairs unless you grow your dough on trees."

I think making this map must have cost Wendolyne a pretty penny, judging from her descriptions of all of the things she bought while making the rounds to load her map up with photos and to interview the owners.

Next time I'm in SF, I'm definitely going to check out these Places I discovered on the map.