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		Snoozus on March 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Google Maps Shadow Calculator so knowing the buliding height we could figure out which time and day the aerial picture was taken? And given time and day we could figure out how high the buildings are. Could this be used to generate large scale 3d building models automatically? Does anyone know whether this has been attempted?

juki on March 11, 2022 [–]

> Could this be used to generate large scale 3d building models automatically?

A lot of places have lidar data available that can be used for that.

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