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. 2021 Mar 24:36:106980.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106980. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Data set for French historical light aids to navigation (F-LAN) covering the period 1775-1929

Alexis D Litvine  1 , Oliver Dunn  1
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Data set for French historical light aids to navigation (F-LAN) covering the period 1775-1929

Alexis D Litvine et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

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, 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. Thanks to F-LAN it is now possible to map and analyse light coverage for France over two centuries. It can be used to analyse coastal routing, infrastructure investment and the relationship between accidents and the provision of light in any given area.

Keywords: Coastal navigation; Historical geography; Lighthouses; Transport infrastructure.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Fig 1
Fig. 1
Number of lights (all types) reported by benchmark year in F-LAN. (Establishments fitted with multiple lights are counted as one observation).
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Fig. 2
Evolution of lighthouses and visibility ranges over time.
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