Description: Within Blender I placed light sources on top of all the lighthouse points from OSM data to create a map with glow and shadow across the 3d surface model. Check out other examples on my [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/visualwallmaps)
Curious what the lighthouse in central London is?
Home of the 2nd oldest lighthouse in operation at Hook
British isles and Ireland
Every 1,000 or so posts, this sub lives up to its name. Congrats. This is pretty enough to be a desktop wallpaper.
Actually cool. If there was one like this of Schleswig Holstein/ Hamburg I would hang it up on the wall.
Salty Irish nationalists incoming
good work this looks neat
Widescreen for desktop wallpaper please.
Ireland isn’t a “British isle”
It’s a shame we never built one on top of Rockall.
The presentation here is nice, but does the light scale gradient in the water actually indicate how far you could see these lighthouses from? Like in normal conditions how far can you see a normal lighthouse? it would be cool if the gradient faded out as the actual visibility in average weather conditions faded out.
Amazing implementation of data! This is NatGeo level infographic art.
They’re brighter than I imagined.
Never realised how bare the area I live is when it comes to lighthouses… I mean it *is* mostly marshland so that could be why hah
So, let’s say I was a pirate looking to bring me booty ashore. It seems like a bit of the north coast of Cornwall and most of the Dorset coast is best for it. Right?
that looks pretty sick. Wonder if someone makes the 3D version with the backlit as well. Being far from home for school sometimes is good to have something like this
What the area looked like after the 2019 Sellafield accident /s
Awesome.you should do it again but do the real extent of the light based on the height and what blocks it. Use site like https://www.heywhatsthat.com/
That’s like something I’d love to have on my wall.
Turn down the brightness please, I’m trying to sleep.
Fucking hell that’s bright – how the poor fish sleep?
I would frame and hang this on my wall. Do you have a hi res version available to download?
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Source: Copernicus DEM, OSM Lighthouses
Tools: Blender, QGIS, Global Mapper, Photoshop
Description: Within Blender I placed light sources on top of all the lighthouse points from OSM data to create a map with glow and shadow across the 3d surface model. Check out other examples on my [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/visualwallmaps)
Curious what the lighthouse in central London is?
Home of the 2nd oldest lighthouse in operation at Hook
British isles and Ireland
Every 1,000 or so posts, this sub lives up to its name. Congrats. This is pretty enough to be a desktop wallpaper.
Actually cool. If there was one like this of Schleswig Holstein/ Hamburg I would hang it up on the wall.
Salty Irish nationalists incoming
good work this looks neat
Widescreen for desktop wallpaper please.
Ireland isn’t a “British isle”
It’s a shame we never built one on top of Rockall.
The presentation here is nice, but does the light scale gradient in the water actually indicate how far you could see these lighthouses from? Like in normal conditions how far can you see a normal lighthouse? it would be cool if the gradient faded out as the actual visibility in average weather conditions faded out.
Amazing implementation of data! This is NatGeo level infographic art.
They’re brighter than I imagined.
Never realised how bare the area I live is when it comes to lighthouses… I mean it *is* mostly marshland so that could be why hah
So, let’s say I was a pirate looking to bring me booty ashore. It seems like a bit of the north coast of Cornwall and most of the Dorset coast is best for it. Right?
that looks pretty sick. Wonder if someone makes the 3D version with the backlit as well. Being far from home for school sometimes is good to have something like this
What the area looked like after the 2019 Sellafield accident /s
Awesome.you should do it again but do the real extent of the light based on the height and what blocks it.
Use site like https://www.heywhatsthat.com/
That’s like something I’d love to have on my wall.
Turn down the brightness please, I’m trying to sleep.
Fucking hell that’s bright – how the poor fish sleep?
I would frame and hang this on my wall. Do you have a hi res version available to download?