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Hi there! My office window faces east and this morning, your map showed shade from the building across the street (correct), as well as shade from my building o
by foco_tubi 2mo ago
Hi there! My office window faces east and this morning, your map showed shade from the building across the street (correct), as well as shade from my building on the lawn below my window (incorrect).
- tppiotrowski 2mo agoThanks for the reply. Do you have a tree or bush outside your window? I estimate where tree shadows fall but it's not super accurate. In the settings dialog you can toggle, "below canopy", "above canopy" or disable tree shadows altogether.
- foco_tubi 2mo agoToggling to no canopy fixes it - palm trees cast little to no shade
- fxwin 2mo agoI've seen the setting, and I've seen that you suggest toggling it when tree shadows seem inaccurate, can you elaborate on what that setting does exactly?
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- tppiotrowski 2mo ago"Top of canopy" - view from above like looking down from an airplane window. You won't see any shadows looking down on a forest because you only see sunlight landing on the top of the canopy. Most accurate. "Below canopy" - what shadows would look like on the ground. If you're in a dense forest everything is in shadow because the trees obscure the sun. I guesstimate how big and where the below canopy shadows land. Any vegetation that's more than 2 meters tall, I place a shaded area beneath it. Not super accurate because it treats trees like cylinders instead of a sphere/triangle on top of a cylinder. "No trees" - only building and terrain shadows are shown on the map.
- fxwin 2mo agoHmm, maybe I'm missing something, but what's the difference between "top of canopy" and "No trees" then?