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I just had to check some really rural places and went to some random village in tibet. As there is no information about trees or buildings there, just roads, it
by mikkom 2y ago
I just had to check some really rural places and went to some random village in tibet. As there is no information about trees or buildings there, just roads, it surprisingly doesn't work - it just shows some shadows based on terrain heights in middle of empty village road grid.
So as expected, if the site has height information it can draw shadows but definitely not for "every building" etc that the title claims.
- faraggi 2y agowell... of course?
- mikkom 2y agoI personally thought the interesting part of the submission was the "every" of the title, ie there might have been some AI algo that could have somehow approximated height and shadows based on multiple satellite images or use some data that is not available for everyone (hence the "every" could have applied) Currently it's an approximation of shadows based on unreliable open data which is nice but not that special.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoThey shouldn't be using "every". It sounds like the kind of thing American programmers say.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoSome people still thinks words should mean what they mean.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoThe irony that I've written a typo in a comment about words is not lost on me.