From 21 to 23 June 2024 at Hack4ChangeTECH we created a tool to compute and aggregate shadow data from everywhere and anytime. We won the contest in 2 out of 3 categories: of the best project created during the Hackathon, as well as the public's favorite.

The primary usecase of our tool was a working program that finds the walking path between two given points, which is both the shortest and has the least amount of sun exposure.

By modifying the edges in the road network to incorporate sunlight exposure the existing pathfinding algorithms returned a path in shade visualized above.

After experimenting with other APIs and data sources we also recognized some further business applications, which would require a reasonable amount of work to generate actual value to our potential customers.

Project dependencies might be installed using PDM Refer to PDM documentation for:

• PDM Installation
• Managing Dependencies

TLDR; install PDM then use the command pdm sync to install all dependencies.

Also: pip install -r requirements.txt

Go to the frontend directory and run the following command:

npm run build

To serve the frontend and API, execute the following command:

fastapi dev api.py

before executing the command make sure that all dependencies are installed