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How to estimation house dimensions from an address (building a fire protection app)
I'm working on a revolutionary fire protection product that can have a massive impact and empower home owners to protect their houses from wildfires. I need to figure out what is the best way to estimate the total dimensions of a house if only given an address. I need to understand roof angles, forms, heights and overall dimensions in order to make specific recommendations for each home owner- Google Maps, Zillow are some ideas I had. Any advice? Much appreciated T
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André J
Solar panel companies has roof angle calculators often. Maybe take inspo from these websites? Here is one: https://www.otovo.no/
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@sentry_co that's a cool related application. Hmmmm it seems like it's not directly applicable because otovo (https://otovo.co.uk/) et al. (here's one: https://shopsolarkits.com/pages/... )are calculating ideal solar panel tilt based on the sun aspect, whereas Terrence is looking for the physical roof angle.
@rajiv_ayyangar Yeah. angle is going to be a challenge with only info from google maps. Usually these solar as a service websites figure out the area of the roof. But in order for them to give accurate info regarding which panels to use. They must some how also factor in angle. So an idea could be to contact them and ask how they do it.
Interesting...what have you tried so far? This is a bit heavy handed, but you might try @ChatGPT by OpenAI - their new Operator app is expensive but could browse the web and get the job done. Maybe @steveb has ideas?
@rajiv_ayyangar @terrence_kelleman this is fun. Most (all?) US cities have PIM info that could be scraped easily. Here's San Francisco's: https://sfplanninggis.org/pim/. You could also look at @Esri 's APIs here: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgi... which have tons of options. Specific info like roof angles might be tough but general form and size I bet could either scrape or find in ESRI.