SF Trip Planner is a free and open-source tool designed for visitors to San Francisco who want to consolidate their trip planning into a single, visual interface. It integrates events, curated spots, and live safety data onto one interactive map, enabling users to make informed decisions about their itinerary without juggling multiple websites and tabs.

Planning a trip to San Francisco often involves extensive research across numerous sources, leading to dozens of open browser tabs, difficulty scheduling events, and uncertainty about neighborhood safety at different times. This tool addresses the problem of scattered information by bringing together event details from platforms like Luma and Eventbrite, personal recommendations from blogs and chats, and public crime data from SFPD and CivicHub, all in one place to eliminate cross-referencing and safety blind spots.

A core feature is the unified interactive map that displays color-coded pins for events, eateries, bars, cafes, shops, and areas to avoid. Users can toggle layers to see exactly what's happening in any neighborhood, with all data sources visually integrated for immediate context and planning efficiency.

The tool includes a live crime heatmap overlay sourced from publicly available San Francisco safety data, including SFPD incident reports and community reports. This allows users to see recent crime density by block directly on the map alongside their planned events and spots, providing situational awareness to choose safe routes and times.

Users can import and manage curated spots, such as restaurants from blogs or recommendations from friends, tagging them by category like 'eat' or 'bar'. These spots appear on the map alongside events, enabling easy filtering and selection based on proximity to other plans, ensuring no recommendation is forgotten.

The day planner functionality lets users drag events and spots into a time-grid schedule, with routes updating automatically on the map. This visual planning approach helps users build a personal itinerary without complex setup, focusing on arranging their day efficiently and seeing the full schedule at a glance.

SF Trip Planner works by syncing user-provided event feeds and spot lists, then overlaying them with real-time crime data on a Google Maps-based interface. Its unique methodology combines these disparate data streams into a single view, using color-coding and heatmaps to highlight conflicts and safety concerns, streamlining the decision-making process.