The virtual sun dial

This entry's title links to a nifty little piece of programming by an anonymous photographer. For any pinpoint location on any date it calculates sunrise & sunset times. More impressively it also calculates the axis of the rise and set. Use with the Firefox browser and you get graphic red lines indicating the directions. Switch to satellite view and you get some idea about contours too.

Not a complete replacement for a pre-prod' visit of course, but nonetheless a great little resource for architectural photographers and dedicated landscapers. My hat's off to the creator.