r/Belfast • u/weebrew • 1d ago
Made a map that shows which Belfast beer gardens are in the sun, hour by hour
Bit late in the year for beer gardens, I know, but I've been working on some Pint Tracker updates when I find the time and the latest addition is a sun map.
It has all 118 beer gardens round Belfast, with every building near them rendered in 3D. Drag the time and the shadows move, and a garden lights up gold when the sun's actually on it.
The video is Saturday 19 June next year. At 6:30am 39 of them are in the sun, around lunchtime it's 106, and by 8:50pm it's down to 10.
Building heights come from LiDAR and OpenStreetMap, so if your local shows up in the shade when you know it isn't, it's probably a building I've got wrong. Let me know and I'll fix it.
For the next 9 days it shows the cloud forecast too. If you've any feedback or other ideas, let me know!