Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OpenPV – Photovoltaic Potential in Bavaria (and Beyond?)
Photovoltaic potential calculated live and privacy-friendly in your browser via WebGL. Using open LoD2 and laser point data from the Bavarian Public Agency for Digitization, High-Speed Internet and Surveying. Including laser points for tree occlusions and other non-LoD2 objects. Try it with the Bavarian Hall of Fame next to Oktoberfest: Hall of Fame, Munich, Bavaria Note that the point clouds might be a lot of data to download if enabled (~50 MB+). Currently limited to Bavaria, Germany. Thanks for your feedback!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OpenPV – Photovoltaic Potential in Bavaria (and Beyond?) launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer…
2024 · shademap.app · its alternatives →
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Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just become legal in the UK and will go on sale soon. Helios estimates how much electricity a typical installation could generate at a given address and what that's worth against your tariff. It uses UK government LIDAR data to reflect the actual skyline, so it knows whether there's a building or a hill blocking the sun. Caveats: - Outside LIDAR coverage (most of Scotland and Wales) it falls back to a synthetic horizon (less accurate). - Trees and recent developments (post-2022 or so) may not be in the data, and some address placements could…
May 2026 · helios.southlondonscientific.com · its alternatives →
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GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy). It's an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located. Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country. History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and…
2023 · renewables-map.robinhawkes.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I quit my job two years ago to have more time to work on my side projects. The main one is an automated solar concentrator. I've just open-sourced it, it's not perfect nor finished, and I still have a lot of ideas for further development, but I'm interested in knowing what you think of it. There are many applications where concentrated solar power could be a viable environmental and economic solution, I hope this technology will one day be more widely used. Feel free to give any feedback and ask questions.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Satellite imagery for dummies. Contribute to plant99/felicette development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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UpToWhere▲28The idea came to me after spotting the sea peeking through mountains on a drive near Barcelona. It left me wondering what else was visible from different locations. Some of the features I later added include 3D maps, sun path calculation, adjustable elevation (calculate from a drone/plane POV), and mountain detection. To celebrate the launch, the first 100 HN users can get 1 month of free premium access with the code: UTWfirst100. I’d love your feedback, questions, and suggestions. What would you use this for? What features would you like to see?
2025 · uptowhere.com · its alternatives →
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Detect objects in drone videos and plot them on a map - roboflow/dji-aerial-georeferencing
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Nord Pv bietet Photovoltaik Anlagen in Hamburg, Lübeck & co.
2023 · nord-pv.com · its alternatives →
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Last weekend, I tried creating an original visualization of something on many minds in my home country the Netherlands: land use. Much of our discussion revolves around land use—housing crisis, sustainable farming, solar energy—it's all about the land. To illustrate this, I created a map where each hexagon represents 0.06% (26,647 hectares) of land in the Netherlands. The color indicates the type of land use.
2024 · koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →
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PixelSpace▲68A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
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A framework and server for controlling analog LED strips with an Arduino and a NEXT LED Strip Driver Module - kienankb/LuxBase
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Calculate your solar panel ROI by commune in France
2025 · solairesimple.fr · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard luminaire files (LDT/EULUMDAT, IES LM-63, Oxytech, ATLA-S001), running design calculations against EN 13201 / ANSI/IES RP-8 / CJJ 45 / IES-IDA MLO, and (the part I most want to show off here) rendering real urban scenes in Bevy with the photometric data driving actual streetlight behavior, including sky-glow contribution. The Skyglow Analysis demo loads a real LDT file into a Bevy scene (Khronos Bistro test asset). The luminaire's intensity distribution…
May 2026 · iesna.eu · its alternatives →
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We built a robotic plotter that creates ephemeral visualizations of website carbon footprints using water vapor on glass. It analyzes website energy data and translates it into misty patterns, making the invisible impact of digital infrastructure visible. Built during a residency at a cultural venue in Belgium. Code and build details here : https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/gijs/carbon-aware/-/tree/main....
2024 · vimeo.com · its alternatives →
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Punkt auf der Karte wählen und aus offenen LiDAR- und Höhendaten (DGM, DOM, Punktwolken) Schummerung, Hangneigung, Sky-View-Faktor, Openness und Local Relief Model als GeoTIFF berechnen. Kostenlos, ohne Konto, für Archäologie und Heimatforschung.
Jul 2026 · hillsha.de · its alternatives →
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2024 · old.reddit.com · its alternatives →
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Last year at CVPR 2018, I became interested in the Apolloscape dataset and the localization task challenge that was announced for ECCV 2018. I dived into the...
2019 · capsulesbot.com · its alternatives →
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🧧️【发财入口 6108.vip】🧧6️⃣BBIN·宝盈集团(中国)有限公司官网,因为目前BBIN宝盈已经拥有了十二个不同的语言版本,其原因就在BBIN宝盈注重会员资金安全和游戏的公平性,BBIN宝盈拥有超过二十个不同的资源分类,是最好的娱乐平台。
2019 · electricitytransition.com · its alternatives →
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The "Kind-Of" GoogleMaps App for PV System Installation
Apr 2026 · pvlevel.eu · its alternatives →
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Smart City solutions by Omniflow: sustainable Smart Poles powered by wind and solar energy with IoT integration for efficient, low-carbon cities.
2015 · omniflow.io · its alternatives →
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Looks like this year ePaper projects have been popping around[1], so this is mine. I made a photo frame with the intention of having a record of my family's history that can potentially outlive me. Knowing the challenges of long-lived digital projects, I consider this a moving target that will go through several iterations, but the first version showed encouraging results. I wonder if anyone else is interested in having something like that in their living rooms. More details:…
2020 · its alternatives →
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A visually appealing terrain visualization from real-world data with some extras, such as an animated energy dome, LOD tessellation and multisampling - MauriceGit/Energy-Dome_Terrain
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI Image generator optimized for German and European users
2025 · its alternatives →
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