DataSF Application Showcase is an an online resource sponsored by San Francisco Government, where artists, programmers and innovators can share their ideas and applications for participation, collaboration and transparency in the city of San Francisco. Contributions to the showcase can be submitted online and anyone who has an interest in working with these data sets can spearhead their own project and make it available to the public.

The DataSF App Showcase capitalizes on the understanding that changes are  already happening to the distribution of information and that interested developers will continue the push to create new technologies to affect city life and move away from propriety systems. The release of these data sets encourage collective participation and gives greater power to individual citizens.

Stamen Design, who has been actively working with the public data made available through this resource as well as information from the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District, will debut a series of interactive and printed maps at GAFFTA’s inaugural show “OPEN”, allowing visitors to explore the Tenderloin through a series of different lenses.