76,000 lighthouses shine in interactive atlas
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Digital analyst Aaron Becker's Mapped.earth project now features an interactive map of nearly 76,000 lighthouses worldwide, created from open-source data from NOAA and NGA, with each light animated to blink or rotate at the speed of its real counterpart and detailed information including beacon height, color, visibility distance, and rotation speed.
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