The slider only goes to 8pm and sunset isn't until 9:57pm tonight in Glasgow. And before you say anything the Sun is shining down brightly at the moment.<p>The little display on the right with the building models is very cute. Looks like someone has run some vision algorithm over the satellite images.
I live and work just next to Boxpark, and was very amazed that it was able to locate me so accurately without me turning on location services.<p>Until I figured out that is the default starting position.
Lovely idea - but I’m not sure height of the building data is accurate enough.<p>For example, here in Edinburgh one of the best (indeed rare) beer gardens is the Pear Tree:<p><a href="http://pintsinthesun.co.uk/#55.94434710372921/-3.18554684848515/4af47d94f964a52013f321e3" rel="nofollow">http://pintsinthesun.co.uk/#55.94434710372921/-3.18554684848...</a><p>Which is notorious for the dreaded shadow of nearby Appleton Tower (8 stories, immediately to the west) curtailing an evenings imbibing..
I guess this is a UK thing? I typically look for shaded beer gardens here in the Midwestern United States.<p>Edit: Plus, direct sunlight can skunk a hoppy beer in minutes.
Neat! Two facts about drinking beer outdoors:
1) Norwegian has a word for it:
utepils.<a href="http://enthusiastslexicon.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/utepils/" rel="nofollow">http://enthusiastslexicon.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/utepils/</a><p>2) a hoppy beer in the sun can skunk in minutes. So keep those under an umbrella.
Would work nicely for Amsterdam, except that it considers houseboats down in the canals buildings that throw as much shadow as the buildings around them, thereby eliminating 50% of the options in my neighborhood (all canals, all filled with boats).
Nice! We actually did the same in Paris a few months ago with OSM & d3 :) <a href="https://twitter.com/snips/status/452943384702119936" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/snips/status/452943384702119936</a>
We need this for SF! For such a (comparatively) sunny place, I've struggled to find good places to sit and drink in the sun (moved from the UK in August).
Reminds me of the almost identical <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beerinthesun/beer-in-the-sun" rel="nofollow">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beerinthesun/beer-in-th...</a> which was around last year. Looks like their homepage (beerinthesun.com) is now something completely different.
Doesn't work for me. Mac Chrome 35. Clicking search does nothing, tried with extensions off too.<p>On the idea itself I did this myself using R a few months back for the pubs in Islington to schedule meetups with friends when the sun was out for the weekend. Good to have it as a site.
This data is also available for The Netherlands:<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/zonnegrens/id634451165?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/zonnegrens/id634451165?mt=8</a><p>Yes we have height differences as well!
Great idea but right now I'm in East Midtown NYC. Not a lot of sun at any time of day. Don't think this app takes into account height of buildings, which is kinda important...
Nice site, took a lot of refreshes for it to work for me though (console is saying that certain scripts were not loading because they were timing out (jquery, moment)).
Guess this is the hacker news effect, but I can't get the website to yield a single result. Which is a real shame as it's a beautiful day in London town.