Given the uniqueness of this idea, I'm curious about the technical challenges you faced while developing "SitInShade."
Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
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#42It's not working for me :(
I'm trying a trip from the north of France (Paris) to the south (Lyon) in the morning while the sun rises. So the sun is mainly on the East (so left of the bus) and the app tells me to sit on the left side of the bus.
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#43The idea is nice, the problem is that the route the app uses (it uses for example a highway) isn't the one the bus would use.
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#44This is working well! My only feedback is that I was checking a location far outside my timezone (-12 hours). This means I have to look up the timezone for that location. I would prefer to always use the "local" timezone, from the starting location.
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#45Would be great to have the best route with less low angle sun facing directly into your face and blinding you when driving.
Another idea for a simple website would be to find the less icy side of a street. Often south facing sides of streets have less ice on them.
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#46The idea is nice, the problem is that the route the app uses (it uses for example a highway) isn't the one the bus would use.
Hmm, shouldn't the more shady side be the same in practical scenarios (like not going the other way around the globe, etc)?
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#47I recently took a bus over the Andes and was congratulating myself on choosing a seat on the shady side. Then I realized that in the southern hemisphere the sun is in the north and I had outsmarted myself.
Yes. There are is mnemonic phrase in german to tell where the sun is in morning/noon/evening which contains "sun is never seen in the north" - which just not work on the southern hemisphere.
Interesting because the sun rises and sets from the north (NE, NW) during the summer in the northern hemisphere. The effect is more pronounced the farther north of the equator you are and Germany is quite far north.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don’t you have to have the blinds up for take off and landing? You definitely do in Europe.
I don't know, it would make sense for the US FAA to require that but I don't have the authority to ask that of the window seat passenger, and most flight attendants don't care. They're more concerned that my seat back is not pushed back by the 3mm that they move.
They are equally strict about the window blinds in Europe.
I don't travel enough on other airlines to make generalisations.
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#49I tested with London to Paris — if it's easy with your routing system, you should add the Channel Tunnel as a fake road. I'm not sure why it chose a ferry so far off the shortest route.
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#50That 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.
Congratulations on your superior sense of orientation.