2013-11-17 ~ Updates: Things are warming up!

[theo-armour]

Here's the Change Log

• Accessing the revised smaller CSV files
• Source code objectified and name-spaced in simple manner
• Possible errors in CSV files stepped around
• Nearby buildings are identified and displayed. All have shading and shadows.
• You can change the search radius for nearby buildings.
• The ground plane is circular and updates with change in search radius.
• Clicking a checkbox allows you to replay the sun's position for the 8760 hours in a year

Notes

The app is still a resource hog. You should reload between searches. Sometimes it's best to close the tab and start fresh.

Caching can be an issue with GitHub Pages. Unless you see 'Touch Building 2013-11-17' as the title at the top of the page, you are on an old release.

We are not in a beauty contest. No attempt is being made so far to make things good looking or user friendly. Those elements may come into play in the fullness of time.

Sun position replay. Today's bit was just a hack to get something going. Future releases will try to make the sun play nice.

Generally: I am pleased with the way things are going. Seeing the nearby buildings is huge gain. And the sun position addition made for a double 'whammy' today.

I am trying to spend two or three hours per day on this work and progress is still coming along at a reasonable pace. It's all quite exciting and should hit in with other projects I am working on such as the cartography.

Coming Up

You can select the Month day and hour of the sun.

Maybe: tweening between sun positions - for smoother sun movement.

Learning about ArcGis data export