“WHY”: It can help you plan for the best places to sit, take photos, etc.
A friend is planning an event this summer and wanted to find a shady spot in a large park for people to sit. I remembered seeing this project, and it helped in my use case
Here is the website: https://shademap.app/
Here is the developer’s GitHub with some code, API, and sample projects: https://github.com/ted-piotrowski
Here is an article I found by Bellingcat talking about the features: https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/shademap
There is also this other tool ShadowMap (app.shadowmap.org), but the data quality wasn’t great for the places that I tried.
As someone that’s a design engineer for the solar industry, this might actually be a useful tool for me! Thanks for putting it together!
Shockingly accurate even for my unremarkable small town. It even has the tree shadows!
Also check out https://lightningmaps.org/ 😉
I’ll have to remember this one during the next storm
I use blitzortung.
Thank you!!!
I’ve been looking for a way to find out how much sunlight certain spots get at specific times of year.
Internet, today was a good day ❤️
Pretty neat. Even gets the mountain shadows.
This is so amazing. And accurate. Thanks!
Damned slick! Seems right on the money with my house, given variations for small landscaping changes.
I used the tool when looking for a house to buy.
I was looking in a mountainous area so the amount of sun a house gets in winter can vary quite a lot. Even a few hundred meters can make a huge difference in some cases.
Or you could call the Shädowmän.
Oh, hey, it’s me: your otter cousin, cousin.
This is really cool - thank you for sharing!
