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I'm using it to figure out the shadows cast by the Twin Towers (417 m. and 415 m., North and South towers, respectively) at different times of the day and different…",{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"30639894","ldayley","As an outdoor photographer I’m constantly referring to an ephemeris[0] to check out the light situation at different times. This isn’t nearly as full featured as what I use but I…",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"30640560","weichbild","Ah this is perfectly timed--many of the old garden-focused azimuth \u002F altitude \u002F persephone day calculators are defunct and never handled the problem of cast shadows very well in…",[68,90,97],{"value":69,"source":53,"evidence":70},"Treats Earth as flat and ignores elevation and terrain shadows",[71,75,78,82,86],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"30640459","cyborgx7","Very cool. Sorry for being \"that guy\" but I assume this doesn't take into account the earth surface curvature, just the relative sun position and then assumes a flat earth? 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An idea that often came up amongst coworkers while walking to a lunch spot during the hot summers was being able to get walking directions that preferred routes in…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"30640790","compsciphd","I actually proposed something similiar to friends at google maps, that it be interesting for walking directions to advise based on which route would be most shadowed (say in the…",{"value":125,"source":53,"evidence":126},"Group height editing for buildings",[127],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},[129],{"value":130,"source":53,"evidence":131},"Could it estimate solar panel output?",[132,136],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"30643688","alias_neo","Could I use this to figure out what I might he able to achieve from adding solar to my home if I hooked it up to homeassistant? I'm in the UK and trying to work out if it's worth…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"30640912","ricardo81","Very nice. Confirms that installing solar panels on my roof simply isn't economical. 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