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Posted by karakoram 2 days ago

A map of every lighthouse(mapped.earth)
140 points | 63 commentspage 2
themanmaran 5 hours ago|
Fun fact, there is a .gov effort to sell (or give away) a lot of old lighthouses in exchange for agreed maintenance. It's sort of a terrible deal, since you can't live in them or use them for commercial purposes, but you do still have to maintain it to a certain standard. But I'm sure someone is out there with the desire.

https://realestatesales.gov/our-listing/

pants2 5 hours ago||
What would be the reason to buy it then? Just to tell your friends that you own a lighthouse?
WinstonSmith84 4 hours ago||
probably just to keep history alive. A lot of (very) wealthy people buy non-sense because they don't know what to do from their money. Then, why not buying a lighthouse :-)
somebodyistryin 5 hours ago||
I checked the area near my house and there are about 10x more lighthouses shown than really exist. Some are buoys but most don’t correspond to anything.
DeliCheese 5 hours ago|
There is one next to me that is not shown, so more of a coastline viewer than a lighthouse one.
sailingcode 3 hours ago||
Lovely idea. As a sailor, I still rely on lighthouses and their individual signature. In times of GPS jamming, we shouldn't give up longstanding technology.
dochne 6 hours ago||
My favourite bit about people who use OpenStreetMap data for lighthouses is that they end up including <https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2647013,-2.1151705,51a,15y,2...> lighthouse in the exceptionally landlocked Droitwich (shows up as Hanbury Wharf Lighthouse)
pixelesque 6 hours ago|
They also often include "pairs" of lighthouses (high / low, front / rear) where newer ones have replaced older ones, but the older structure is still there (and often is now a museum), but isn't the active lighthouse.

Although this one has done a reasonable job at culling most of those out, at least on the south coast of England.

TuxPowered 3 hours ago||
„Coding is solved” or something, I dunno, I’ve landed on another continent the moment I’ve barely touched the screen.
RonanSoleste 3 hours ago|
Someone at my office said "code is a commodity now". I would personally say that slob code indeed has become a commodity.
shiandow 3 hours ago||
Code is a liability, generating more of it is solving the wrong problem.
r2ob 2 hours ago||
As someone who loves lighthouses, I'd like to thank you!
indrex 6 hours ago||
Looks cool but on iPhone can’t zoom with touchscreen, and can’t tap either to select a lighthouse.
willmeyers 6 hours ago||
It's cool data and I wish the person who prompted Claude to build this would have at least made an attempt to make it optimized and readable. Like, what does "Fl • every 5 s" mean? It's frustrating because this could have been amazing!
pixelesque 5 hours ago|
'F' mean 'Fixed', 'Fl' is Flashing, and 'every 5 s' means it sweeps around every 5 seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_characteristic

tbergkvist 6 hours ago||
My M4 macbook pro ramped up it's fans to 100% after being on this site for three minutes
ninalanyon 2 hours ago|
Mostly not lighthouses but navigation lights.
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