Shade Map

waterpowder

It reminds me of this nice website for when you want to have a drink in the sun at a terrasse in Paris :D https://jveuxdusoleil.fr/#16/48.8551/2.3479

4corners4sides

Does this handle eclipses

illithid0

This is great. I would love a way to simulate something like possible tree placement and how much shade that may generate over the years. There are some parts of my area that are, despite being cut out of a forest, devoid of trees but are supposed to be "outdoor shared spaces". Full sun all day at a dog park in August, for example, just isn't a place I want to be.

pavon

Be sure to check out the different layers. In addition to the default which shows shade at a given moment, there are also options for hours of sun in given day, and an a UI to quickly show shade at any day/time of year.

foco_tubi

This doesn't look particularly accurate, at least not relative to what I can see right now out my window.

deckar01

Trees should not cast shadows as if their foliage extends all the way to the ground.

allthetime

https://app.shadowmap.org Has has existed for many years

jborichevskiy

I've wanted something like this - in Boulder the foothills cast a shadow on the town considerably earlier than sunset provided by weather apps. So in theory, this should be possible to figure out when a park will actually see a sunset. Nice work!

culebron21

I see only a grey rectangle and a hand cursor.

soizi

https://jveuxdusoleil.fr/#16/48.8551/2.3479 it exists since many years with this French website

mplanchard

Ha! A friend and I had this idea ages ago when living in Austin. I actually have the domain “walkdarkly.com” registered for it, in case I ever got around to it. If somebody actually doing something with it wants the domain, I’m happy to talk about transferring it

km3r

My friends and I used this for a camping party's solar panel's placement (for charging a battery). A large campsite with intermixed trees makes it hard to find the optimal spot on our own, but this map helped us keep the party going late into the night before we needed to turn on the generator.

andybak

According to this my garden is almost entirely in the shade but I have a suntan to disprove it.

procflora

I've seen and loved this before but only today I thought to zoom all the way out and see the true terminator affected by elevation. We usually only seen the idealized smooth curve. Very neat!

tonym128

This is so awesome, really really well done on the UI and UX. I love the game like pixel perfect shadow maps. I made a similar site last year - https://tonym128.github.io/peakylight/peakylight.html and used ray casting

echoangle

I don’t know if the building data is from OSM but some of the buildings in my area are not high enough at all and therefore only make a really small shadow. It’s off by a factor of 3 or so.

siriusastrebe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge There a street in Manhattan that, during a certain time of year the light shines all the way down the grid of buildings. Here's the link to that moment https://shademap.app/@40.7426,-73.9841,13.48594z,17839875468...

Freak_NL

This tool uses OpenStreetMap data for the buildings and base layer. Unfortunately, it kind of hides that it is doing that, which sucks. Usually the required attribution is placed in a corner of the map. Shade Map has a little information-i there which does appear to list OpenStreetMap according to my browser's dev-tools, but it seems to be broken and gets hidden behind other page elements, so only '© Shade Map |' is visible.