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  • Pinch to zoom on a macbook makes the entire map sweep across the globe. Makes it very hard to use even if it's a neat idea.
    by SkyeCA
  • This seems like it maps way more than just lighthouses. Looking at puget sound, at least, it seems to mark all the navigation buoys as lighthouses as well.
    by rizonio
  • Made something similar a few weeks ago with GPT6 when it launched to test it out, however for just US lighthouses: https://jmoul.io/lighthouse-map/?v=20260909-3

    Although this one look a lot better. cool! like how the beams look like they're ray traced.

    I feel like this is a cool application of using ai - before something like this would be unfeasible to make due to the amount of lighthouses. Parsing through the amount of data to create a description of every lighthouse would take months+.

    by hasteg
  • Lovely idea, and a nostalgia trip for me. The sweeping looms brought back some old memories. I worked on merchant ships prior to getting into coding and was the officer of the watch one night crossing the Bay of Biscay going north. It was a clear night with that almost unnaturally still air you get at sea sometimes. I gradually noticed the loom of a lighthouse flashing over the sky just off the starboard bow. I wasn’t expecting landfall so soon and quickly double-checked our position on the chart. I counted the flashes; it was clearly the Phare du Créac'h on the Isle of Ushant. It’s stated as visible at 32 nautical miles, but I was seeing it at almost 90 nautical miles away. The light itself was still below the horizon, but the loom was clearly identifiable (there were no other lights in that area with the same number of flashes and frequency). It must have been some weird temperature inversion effect, but I have never forgotten it. I never saw any other lighthouse from that far away in the rest of my 25-odd years at sea.
    by bobosola
  • I have a similar project (which I created in 2024): https://adsb.exposed/

    Among various datasets, it has OSM data (all of it): https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=OSM&zoom=4&lat=52.3756&lng=2.5...

    And here are lighthouses: https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=OSM&zoom=3&lat=40.0444&lng=9.9...

    by zX41ZdbW
  • Looks nice as already mentioned: pinch to zoom is broken (Firefox on Android here). Also: why am I shown a button labeled 'lighthouses in France' when I'm not actually looking at France?
    by jvdvegt
  • I like the idea. But it was a bit jarring that panning with my finger took ages and then pinching to zoom insta-faceplanted me into the Labrador interior.

    If anyone wants to mount a rescue, I’m somewhere near a lighthouse.

    by Waterluvian
  • Aside from the incredibly low quality of the data, this jumps out as being vibe coded due to the unbeleviably stupid text.

    "Rain as a surface; Height is millimetres of rain per day. Nothing else is encoded."

    Why does AI generated ridiculous sentences like these?

    by plasticeagle

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