“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 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.
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.