“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.
Pretty neat. Even gets the mountain shadows.
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.
Also check out https://lightningmaps.org/ 😉
I’ll have to remember this one during the next storm
I use blitzortung.
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!
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.
you don’t have CAD
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.
pretty trivial function
How so?
you should know the procedure
And you should know how to suck me from behind.
Shockingly accurate even for my unremarkable small town. It even has the tree shadows!
This is so amazing. And accurate. Thanks!
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 ❤️
Damned slick! Seems right on the money with my house, given variations for small landscaping changes.
Or you could call the Shädowmän.
Oh, hey, it’s me: your otter cousin, cousin.
This is really cool - thank you for sharing!
