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It would be nice to be able to access the website on a smartphone (even if the experience is suboptimal), instead of denying access.
Really wish mobile browsers were better liars when it comes to "desktop mode"
I need the inverse of that - an app that predicts how badly a given street will be baked by the sun at current or near-future time, will there be any shadow zone from the buildings, how far will the usable extent of it reach (e.g. not much use of shadow if my head or body stick up beyond the shaded volume). Ideally available on a smartphone. Bonus points for being able to route navigation paths to minimize direct sun…
It would be nice to be able to access the website on a smartphone (even if the experience is suboptimal), instead of denying access.
Smartphones have the huge advantage of direction sensors (3D magnetometer and gyro). I remember using apps like Google sky map (or something like that) way back in 2011 to look at satellites and planets.
For example https://www.sunsurveyor.com/ or https://www.photopills.com/ best among others
I need the inverse of that - an app that predicts how badly a given street will be baked by the sun at current or near-future time, will there be any shadow zone from the buildings, how far will the usable extent of it reach (e.g. not much use of shadow if my head or body stick up beyond the shaded volume). Ideally available on a smartphone. Bonus points for being able to route navigation paths to minimize direct sun…
The idea is to eventually offer a sun or shadow mode and the app will then surface areas, squares, and streets with more sun or shade and eventually offer walking and biking routes with more or less sun.
It doesn't work with curved streets.
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then use a stick™ hint, watch the sticks shadow other hint, can use almost anything that casts a shadow, as a stick substitute. * even more hints availible with stick™ pro
I’d like to subscribe to stick™ pro! I tried a piece of string and it waved around in the wind and didn’t work, so I think I may need a paid service for this.
instruction manual:place stick verticaly on planet. observe shadow™ and place rock™ at point of of maximum shadow length, each day continue untill the pattern starts to repeat. reverse engineer orbital dynamics and gravitational atraction from resulting pattern. scratch head. build civilisation.