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#freeandopen is a real-time Google Map showing where people around the basis are pledging to back upwardly the Take Action drive for a costless too opened upwardly Internet.

The #freeandopen Google Map shows inwards real-time the place of people making the pledge.The map uses the Google Maps API styled map characteristic to gain a white too grayish base of operations map. The neutral base of operations tiles combined amongst colorful custom makers gives each pledge a visual touching on the map.

Each marking also has a petty animation when it kickoff appears on the map to highlight the set out of pledges beingness made around the world, inwards real-time.

The In My Backyard (IMBY) tool, from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, helps users to approximate how much electricity tin hold upwardly produced past times installing solar panels. It also provides data on the probable installation costs, revenue enhancement credits, the dollar value of the electricity that volition hold upwardly generated too the set out of years it volition thus accept to pay dorsum the installation costs.

This map makes dandy role of the Maps API's Drawing Library to render tools that permit the user to depict polygons on tiptop of their house, shown using the Google Maps satellite layer. Once the user has selected their roof on the map The In My Backyard computing device provides a detailed written report on the probable benefits of installing solar ability too also allows the user to compare the estimated solar electricity production amongst the user's electrical current electricity consumption.