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Really 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.
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I never got the idea because our busses had a sort of plastic bar tied to some plastic fabric that you could pull down over the windows. Worked pretty well for blocking the sun. Ofcourse this was way before internet became popular so I guess the ancient knowledge has been lost to humanity by now. The long distance busses also had some sort of air cooling function that they sometimes started up if it was a very warm d…
> Todays busses don't even have heating in the winter Reminder that not all busses are the same, and your experience is extremely localised to you - even different bus companies (or bus models used by a single company) in the same city can be completely different, yet alone different parts of the country, yet alone different countries. Near me, for example, pretty much all busses have heating for the winter, and mayb…
It was called Sunny Boy - https://github.com/taranntell/SunnyBoy
I didn't succeed in generating revenue, but building it was a lot of fun! Kudos and best of luck
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> Todays busses don't even have heating in the winter Reminder that not all busses are the same, and your experience is extremely localised to you - even different bus companies (or bus models used by a single company) in the same city can be completely different, yet alone different parts of the country, yet alone different countries. Near me, for example, pretty much all busses have heating for the winter, and mayb…
Yes, they have heating. Does it work? Yes, seldom. It's even on the news now and then. This area is known for being very cold in winter and working heating never was a problem when I was in school. Now however it seems to be a big problem.
Just that I have no idea where in the world your local busses are, and that you were speaking as if your experience was true of busses everywhere.
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Way too late now, but to help others this fancy Excel sheet provided by NOAA is awesome! It implements all of these equations in Excel and is pretty easily portable to your programming language of choice. https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html P.S. Using this has made it clear to me how bad most sunrise/sunset calculators actually are.
> P.S. Using this has made it clear to me how bad most sunrise/sunset calculators actually are. That may just be a function of how you define "sunrise" and "sunset". It is never as simple as "when the sun hits the horizon", but something about some number of arc minutes from something something.
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> P.S. Using this has made it clear to me how bad most sunrise/sunset calculators actually are. That may just be a function of how you define "sunrise" and "sunset". It is never as simple as "when the sun hits the horizon", but something about some number of arc minutes from something something.
To be clear I was complaining that basically everyone calculates “sunrise” and “sunset” differently. If you check half a dozen different “sunset” calculators you will get a surprisingly wide variation in the times they provide. At least where I live the error seems to average 5-10 minutes.
And what I meant was you are not seeing "error", it's just a difference in definition.
Works. Beautiful. Also works internationally. Good job! It would be splendid if you used 24 hour format per default instead of AM/PM or at least let me choose. You correctly figured out I am at UTC+01:00, but we don't use AM/PM here. I'm not perfectly happy with the colors in the final map. You use blue to represent right, yellowish for left and dark gray for "no sun". Your suggestion on top for preferred seating use…
Thanks for the suggestion. Time selection relies on the default settings of the browser/system.