May 22, 1998

Multifrisco: Interactive Maps of San Francisco

By BIANCA P. FLOYD

Jacques Servin wants people to know more about San Francisco's unique geography and exceptional history -- and about how the two are related.

So Mr. Servin, an artist who lives in San Francisco, has designed a World-Wide Web site that lets users download interactive maps of the city, lay them atop one another, and manipulate them to explore the city in different ways.

"Each map represents a way of seeing the city," says Mr. Servin. Normally, he explains, people experience a