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76,000 Lighthouses Shine in Interactive Atlas

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An interactive map of all the lighthouses on Earth as well as other beacons like buoys and similar. The screenshots above are static, but the lights on the real map are moving: Each lighthouse describes its actual arc, and the range of light beams is true to scale. The video below shows what it looks like on the map. That's very cool. mapd.earth is maps and geography as a way to see the planet — by Aaron Becker. The Earth rendered as data: winds…

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kottke.org broke the news on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
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