Lighthouses of the United Kingdom and Ireland map visualisation

Another attempt of my spin on a map visualisation I spotted online.

This early iteration is pretty basic, and is a visualisation of lighthouse positions in the United Kingdom and Ireland as light points illuminating the surface underneath them.

It’s not the most accurate map of the lighthouses, because the projection is a bit squished, and I decided to remove some of the inland (canals and other waterways) lighthouses that are mostly no longer functional, and I also tried to remove one lighthouse when pairs of lighthouses were very close together (i.e. when there were ‘High’ and ‘Low’ or ‘Front’ and ‘Rear’ pairings within 500m or so).

I did however decide to include some of the lighthouses on the Isle of Man, which some of the other visualisations I’d seen online didn’t seem to feature. I left out the Channel Islands for the moment though, mostly for composition reasons, but I might re-visit that in a future version.

I rendered it in my Imagine renderer in a somewhat brute-force fashion, however it would have been fairly easy to recreate it fully as a 2D rasterisation in this basic version, but I might try aligning the positions with 3D geometric terrain as a shaded relief rendering to see how well that works in the future, so I wrote a bit of infrastructure in Imagine to process lat/lon positions and create objects based on those and used that to generate the scene.