"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.
15 Comments
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y
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!
b_tr3e@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
As a design engineer you don't have CAD software that can predict shading? It's a pretty trivial function, actually. Also, you should know the procedure to construct proper shadows, but sure, that takes a lot more time than having them done by CAD.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
I do, but I'm an design engineer not a designer so my CAD skills are just basic. And I have better things to do with my time than learn CAD beyond the things I do now just to do what this tool does. My firm has designers that are better equipped for that kind of work, so there isn't really a need.
How so?
And you should know how to suck me from behind.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 1y
Shockingly accurate even for my unremarkable small town. It even has the tree shadows!
200ok@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
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 ❤️
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 12 pts · 1y
Also check out https://lightningmaps.org/ 😉
otters_raft@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
I'll have to remember this one during the next storm
Hule@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I use blitzortung.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Damned slick! Seems right on the money with my house, given variations for small landscaping changes.
popcorp@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
This is so amazing. And accurate. Thanks!
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
Or you could call the Shädowmän.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Oh, hey, it's me: your otter cousin, cousin.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Pretty neat. Even gets the mountain shadows.
aramis87@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
This is really cool - thank you for sharing!
lautre@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 1y
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.