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Seems to be quite Europe focussed, but then again 'Dienst" is Dutch for "Service". It's a project of the university of Groningen [0]

[0] https://www.rug.nl/society-business/centre-for-information-t...

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The README [1] says it is using data from OpenStreetMap, fetched with the Overpass API.

[1]: https://github.com/geodienst/lighthousemap

Yep, saw that. Then I wonder: why are those attributes (seamark:light:{sequence, range, colour}) filled more often for lighthouses in Europe?

OpenStreetMap in general seems to have way more contributors from Europe: https://www.osmstats.neis-one.org/

But in this case perhaps much of that data came from a data import that didn't have compatibly-licensed data for the US.

TIL that German and Dutch share the same word for "Service". :)

There's many such words, since the languages share a common root. I'm Dutch but work for a German company and the main language is English. If we can't find a word, typically stuff not core work related, it's often quickest to say the German or Dutch word.

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