Dataset Details
French Historical Light Aids to Navigation (F-LAN), 1775-1929
Description
F-LAN is a geospatial data set that documents hundreds of coastal lights that guided ships around France from medieval times to 1929. F-LAN provides visibility range for individual lights. The authors collected all data from scholarly literature and historical coastal navigational charts and official lighthouse surveys. F-LAN allows users to track the provision of coastal lighting over time. It complements the existing LAN dataset for England and Wales.
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Dataset Information
Resource Type:
dataset
Geographic Coverage:
FR
Temporal Coverage:
2020-11-01/1929-01-15
Data Catalogs
UK Data Service
UK Data Service