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Re:Project Sunroof by swalsh on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:24PM (#10074115)
Weird, it says it covers Boston but when I put my Boston address (single family in the city of Boston itself) it says they haven't reached the address yet.
Re:Project Sunroof by arscan on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:45PM (#10074288)
I live just outside Boston and it worked for me (although it did consider my deck as part of my roof, which grossly inflated the estimate). Technically, they say "greater Boston area", so perhaps they don't actually include Boston itself.
Re:Project Sunroof by sisk on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:35PM (#10074700)
Worked for me and my building is next to Copley. But Boston is very fragmented when it comes to service distribution—just see the broadband provider map:

http://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/bos_cabl...

Re:Project Sunroof by dicroce on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:44PM (#10074770)
I put in an address and it couldn't find it... Then I cleared it out and put in the address more slowly... When I did that I noticed that it found it in the drop down... so I selected it and THEN it worked... It seems like unless you put in EXACTLY what they have in the DB, it won't work... (in my case, I left off the "avenue" in my address).
Re:Project Sunroof by distantsounds on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:13PM (#10074513)
I put in my Medford address and got results. I don't own, but it's still interesting to see.
Re:Project Sunroof by JoshuaEddy on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @01:49AM (#10077771)
Try http://www.mapdwell.com/en/boston . The City of Boston has already done a solar survey with the MIT spinoff MapDwell.