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Addresses used:
John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Access Road, Queens, New York, 11430, United States
Heathrow Airport, Cranford Lane, Hatton Cross, London Borough of Hillingdon, London, Greater London, England, TW6 2DN, United Kingdom
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You could probably make it in a few minutes - the direction of the sun is, to a first approximation, 15 degrees times the number of hours it is after midnight. This leads to a trick for using an analog watch as a compass: https://www.citizenwatch-global.com/support/exterior/directi... https://www.watchaffinity.co.uk/blog/how-to-use-your-watch-a... This is more prone to errors closer to the equator and in the summer (…
The equation of time gets in there too if I recall correctly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time > The equation of time describes the discrepancy between two kinds of solar time. The word equation is used in the medieval sense of "reconciliation of a difference". The two times that differ are the apparent solar time, which directly tracks the diurnal motion of the Sun, and mean solar time, which tracks a…
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Hmm, shouldn't the more shady side be the same in practical scenarios (like not going the other way around the globe, etc)?
There are quite a few bus routes that wind back and forth, especially in urban and mountainous areas potentially offering a lot of shade from buildings and cliff edges for parts of the route anyway. Whether these journeys involve long enough in direct sun to matter is another question.
Like the bus cannot get to the same destination by taking a route where the sun shines on the other side more. (Ignoring some fringe theoretical routes where you do a massive detour over equator.)
edit: I was too fast with my reply to read yours properly. Sorry.
> a lot of shade from buildings and cliff edges for parts of the route
I don't believe sitinshade.com handles those anyway.
I'm having occasional problems with autocomplete of city names:
Try typing "Sacramento" slowly... it shows 0 results as you type letters 6..9, then suddenly finds it on the last letter
I feel like routing apps have completely stagnated basically since the Waze acquisition by Google.
Have I found a bug? I entered JFK and Heathrow, it resolves to correct airports but the map shows a route between London and Lisbon. Addresses used: John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Access Road, Queens, New York, 11430, United States Heathrow Airport, Cranford Lane, Hatton Cross, London Borough of Hillingdon, London, Greater London, England, TW6 2DN, United Kingdom
If you prefer the flight path, you can visit dev.sitinshade.com/flight [beta].
Nice! This would be cool to integrate with "shademap", to visualize the shade/sun during the journey. [1] https://shademap.app/@37.75153,-119.53737,12.65679z,16416003...
This is really useful tool for photography. On Android, I also use Sun Surveyor to determine when the sun is hitting the right side of a building, but it doesn't show the shadows cast by other buildings!
Have I found a bug? I entered JFK and Heathrow, it resolves to correct airports but the map shows a route between London and Lisbon. Addresses used: John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Access Road, Queens, New York, 11430, United States Heathrow Airport, Cranford Lane, Hatton Cross, London Borough of Hillingdon, London, Greater London, England, TW6 2DN, United Kingdom
I'm not sure exactly what's going on, even if you provide a US address in the middle of the country it will only ever give you directions for the European side. If you replace Heathrow with a different continent, like Africa or Asia, it correctly says it can't find a route. My best guess is that the algorithm sees there is a water crossing, but then finds the ferry from France to England and says "ah ok all good". Maybe there is a special case to handle Europe to UK that is causing the problem? If you put in JFK to Dublin it will find two ferries, France to England and England to Ireland, but still nothing on the North American side.
Edit: No nothing to do with the ferries, I think Europe just has some special status. For example, try Brazil -> Morocco vs. Brazil -> Spain.