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• - Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.
  
• - A picture gallery of sundials collected by the author, with annotations and information on each. The majority are in Holland and Belgium. Also includes other information and links.
  
• - Descriptions of these vertical post sundials, why they work, detailed account of the maths necessary to plot the hour lines.
  
• - Information on the society, links, beginner's pages, including simple sundial patterns and templates, online facilities to calculate hour lines for different sundial types.
  
• - Describes design and construction of a six meter wide analemmatic sundial in Canada.
  
• - Describes different types of sundials, has other technical and general information. Offers free Shadows software to compute sundials of a number of different types for anywhere in the world.
  
• - Describes the history of sundials, and their development in Europe from the time of the Greeks. Includes literary and poetic references.
  
• - A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.
  
• - Describes sundial parts and names, the basic types, and has make your own pages for three simple types of dial.
  
• - On-line catalogue, with facilities for search, adding records, map, statistics, articles and references.
  
• - Information is mostly in Dutch, but with some English language pages, including how to calculate several types of sundial.
  
• - Includes general information, links, a register of dials in North America, and a message board.
  
• - Includes British and international sundials with description and exact location; sun compasses.
  
• - Shareware / freeware software for design and planning of the most popular dials.