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First, I went and looked at my house... It's got a lot of tall oak trees near by and in a park across the street.

It shows it almost completely in daylight save for building shadows, which is really wrong even right now as most of the house is shaded by trees.

Then I see an upgrade button... and it wants me to pay. Yet I can't even validate the data passes a sniff test. Their free tier very much doesn't.



Yea the shadow data for my area is hilariously wrong. It’s missing a whole forest that shades my house and a road nearby.


By default the tree shadows appear as they would from an airplane, so you would not see any shadows at noon as the top of the canopy is completely in the sun.

Try changing to "below canopy" in the Settings and you might see the missing shadows.


Mine still has a forest next door that was cut down 8-9 yrs ago.


I feel like the paid version is actually a bit better for trees


It may be, but without a way to see that, why would I ever consider paying?




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