I was in a major city today during a rainstorm and noticed that certain locations each had a pile of broken umbrellas on the pavement, dumped by their owners as the local wind had reduced them to tatters.
Today’s invention is a gustiness map overlay for Google Street View.
This would be based on crowdsourced information about where damaging winds usually occur (mostly on street corners) and result in a display in the form of a superimposed ‘heatmap’ on a mobile phone clipped to the shaft of their brolly.
Owners would be better prepared to re-orientate their umbrellas and thus reduce the waste which unexpected blasts cause.
Brilliant for cyclists who get buffeted! I often change my route to avoid being blown under a bus! 10/10