[HN Gopher] Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and na...
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       Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids
        
       This is an interactive map of US navigational aids and lighthouses,
       which indicates their location, color, characteristic and any
       remarks the Coast Guard has attached.  I was sick at home with the
       flu this weekend, and went on a bit of a Wikipedia deep dive about
       active American lighthouses. Searching around a bit, it was very
       hard to find a single source or interactive map of active beacons,
       and a description of what the "characteristic" meant. The Coast
       Guard maintains a list of active lights though, that they publish
       annually (https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/light-list-annual-
       publication). With some help from Claude Code, it wasn't hard to
       extract the lat/long and put together a small webapp that shows a
       map of these light stations and illustrates their characteristic
       with an animated visualization..  Of course, this shouldn't be used
       as a navigational aid, merely for informational purposes! Though
       having lived in Seattle and San Francisco I thought it was quite
       interesting.
        
       Author : idd2
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2026-01-25 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.lighthouses.app)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.lighthouses.app)
        
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