Out of the Sun, full map
Explore shade by clock hour
Look up a street you walk, or a stop you wait at.
The same ground twice. The map on the left is what the lidar measured. The map on the right raises bare canopy to a leaf-on equivalent. Both are published because the correction changes which neighbourhoods come out shadiest. Choose one clock hour and both maps update together.
Measured, leaf-off
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How to read this map
Dark ground was shaded at the selected clock hour. Light ground had direct sun. Both panes always use the same hour.
This map shows where the sun was blocked. It says nothing about temperature.
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The surface the lidar actually recorded. Every flight over Toronto is spring, so tree shade is understated and building shade is not.
Leaf-on corrected
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How to read this map
Dark ground was shaded at the selected clock hour. Light ground had direct sun. Both panes always use the same hour.
This map shows where the sun was blocked. It says nothing about temperature.
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Bare canopy raised to a leaf-on equivalent. The generous end of the range: ground under a crown counts as shaded for the whole modelled day.
Shade state at 13:00 EDT
- Shaded at the selected hour
- Direct sun at the selected hour
- Not sampled ground
Selected from fifteen frames, 21 July 2026, 06:00 to 20:00 EDT, on a 2 m grid. Lidar flown April to May 2023. The 06:00 frame sits at 0.38° above the horizon and is shaded everywhere by construction.
Inspect a point
Click or tap either map to inspect a point. With a keyboard, focus a map and press Enter to inspect its centre.
Select a point to see its shade profile from 06:00 to 20:00 EDT.
Selected hour, 13:00 EDT
Measured, leaf-off Unknown
Leaf-on corrected Unknown
Each hour has two bars: measured above, corrected below.
Read the profile as a table
| Clock hour | Measured, leaf-off | Leaf-on corrected |
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Explore a street
Search named walkable OpenStreetMap features of at least 100 m. Each profile samples ground 8 to 15 m from the centreline. This explorer grain is broader than the arterial-only analysis in the guide.
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Selected hour, 13:00 EDT
Measured, leaf-off Unknown
Leaf-on corrected Unknown
Read the street profile as a table
| Clock hour | Measured, leaf-off | Leaf-on corrected |
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