“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!
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 ❤️
Also check out https://lightningmaps.org/ 😉
I’ll have to remember this one during the next storm
I use blitzortung.
Damned slick! Seems right on the money with my house, given variations for small landscaping changes.
This is so amazing. And accurate. Thanks!
Pretty neat. Even gets the mountain shadows.
Or you could call the Shädowmän.
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.
Oh, hey, it’s me: your otter cousin, cousin.
This is really cool - thank you for sharing!
