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I would make the point size dependent of the scale. When I zoom in I get huge balls. And I would make them not blink.

The size of the points shows the reported visible range, the colour and pattern of blinks represents how the light should appear. But this all depends upon the OSM data being entered correctly, and as https://github.com/geodienst/lighthousemap#readme notes:

"contains my best guess on how a light sequence will look based on these descriptions. However, it might be inaccurate, and it tries to do its best with the sometimes not entirely consistent data from OSM."

They blink as they blink in reality. This is the point of the map.

The point of the map is to remind you that lighthouses blink? I thought it was to show you where the lighthouses were.

I think they meant that the point is to show the blinking pattern (which is one very valuable piece of data when it comes to identifying a lighthouse).

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