“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.

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    2 days ago

    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 ❤️