The biggest issue is the way the air tram magically changes altitudes from shot to shot...and the way the bridge has two south towers (the one out in the channel) because they used angles from the north and pretended they were south.
I think I posted these before, but for them's who never saw 'em...
It's impossible for the bridge to be lit like this as seen from the south...another dead giveway it's shot from the north. Also, the hills of the Marin headlands appear to have been flattened.
All the plates for these shots were done from the north side of the bridge, and one was flopped and altered to appear as if from the south side. But the dead giveaway is that the bridge is not symmetrical.
Specifically...
1. The north tower is right by the shoreline on the Marin side
2. The south tower stands out in the channel and has a caison around its base
3. Between the south end of the bridge and the cable anchorage an arch was built over the old Civil War era fort there
Oh, and since I live in San Francisco and have a pretty good sense of geography, I created this map to show where a lot of the locations seen in the movies are shows would actually be located.
One thing I got wrong on this is where the TVH Fed HQ is, because once I saw McQuarrie's matte concepts for it I know exactly where it is (closer to the TUC Starfleet Buildings).
As to how I know where Kirk's apartment is. The cyclorama seen outside his apartment window was from The Towering Inferno (you can tell because of the horizon line), which means Kirk's place is like 100 or more stories up. Based on "Inferno" this puts Kirk's pad roughly on the south side of Market Street at the start of Geary Blvd., between 2nd and 3rd Streets, more or less due south of the Transamerica Pyramid.
