Looks nice. To scale this to large revenue I would highly recommend considering the real estate surveying market. This market is in the process of being disrupted by geolocating UAV-based photogrammetry point clouds. It has lots of bullshit inertia owing to regulatory significance, including a fully enshrined network of "approved surveyor" types who provide far less data than UAVs for far more money, far more slowly. There are multiple paid-for services that can be offered here. One is real estate sales, just showing the site in-situ in a local map and maybe emphasizing sun and aspect. One is real estate concept development as point clouds can provide local high-res trees/buildings even across the boundaries for shade mapping. Good shade mapping can mean the difference between a development being approved or not, so has huge monetary benefit. Generating reports for this depends upon the regional requirements, eg. which season. Often they pick a random peak-summer or peak-winter day and demand top-down shade maps of those. Currently architects pay for surveys and get back crap. Shade mapping is specialist. Every single day tens of thousands of real estate surveys are made. There has to be opportunity to push in this direction, just a suggestion.
Great write-up. I've never worked with a surveyor (I rent) but I did some Googling to understand the process. I think I would need to convert point clouds to DEM which Shade Map natively understands.
I'm wondering if I should meet with local surveyors of if there's some big names in the industry you suggest I try to go after?
Also, sorry for my abysmal treatment of buildings on the map (pixelated shadows at high zoom). I'm working to improve this.
