I'm surprised that so many posts are people saying they want this. I've never felt a strong preference for shady seats while traveling. Why do (many) people prefer them?
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It is funny in my language as we have the same word for both noon and south.
Is it French (midi)?
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#98Great idea. I'm wondering how dis you computed the sun postion in every area of the eath ?
These days you can tease similar information from Celestia, Stellarium, and other astro projects.
Sun angle wrt a smooth perfect ellipsoid is one thing .. actual sun angle + shadows in the presence of mountains, valleys, forests, tall buildings, etc is a whole other ball of fun.
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#99That would have seem to be something trivial to think about for anyone with a modicum of sense of orientation. I guess most people don't have that.
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#100Really nice idea and it works to an extent, but it doesn’t seem to use the bus routes — just sent me the quickest route via the motorway. Not sure how much of a ball ache that would be to implement though as I guess you would need to pair a lot of APIs or pay google out the backside
Currently OpenStreetMap routing API, would have to be replaced with the Google Maps Transit API.
PS: There might be other free alternatives to using the main osm.org API which will be more reliable.