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French Lights
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Description
The application "French lights" presents more than 1000 lighthouses and lights from France and its surroundings.
For each lighthouse, you'll find:
- a characteristics sheet with description, height, elevation of the light, range, photos, visit informations and its location.
- a detailed map to visualize the range, sectors and colors of each light.
- a simulation of the light
- a route calculation to get there.
Lighthouses details are available by:
- a "Map" view to locate all the listed lighthouses.
- a "List" view that can be sorted according to several criteria: alphabetically, user distance, range, type of light (colors), height , elevation.
This application requires the installation of Google Play Services Play (13 MB).
All data and pictures can be viewed offline. Maps and visit informations need an internet connection.
Warning:
"French lights" is not a navigation aid application. Data from the lights were not checked by SHOM and are for reference only. The author disclaims all liability for misuse of them.
Fog signals described in this application are not necessarily in service. Most of them are, or will soon be stopped.
Known issue:
- On Android2.X, return from detailed view to list view is slow, and causses problems in settings view submenus.
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Changelog
Revision 3.1 (2023/11/05):
- update of lights data
- addition of 12 lights in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Mediterranean Sea
Revision 3.0 (2023/08/15): Total rewriting of the application
- alignments display
- auxiliary lights display
- favorites management
- multi-criteria filters
- zoom on photos
- time indicator on lights simulation
- simulation of fog signals
- light theme or dark theme
- 38 new photos
Revision 2.4 (2021/06/16):
- 80 new photos
- data fixes
Revision 2.3 (2015/07/25):
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More than 1000 lights in this version. The following lights did not appear in the previous version:
- lighthouses of New Caledonia, French Polynesia, French Guyana, Lesser Antilles, St Pierre et Miquelon and surroundings, Reunion island
- french lights of Mediterranean sea
- harbour lights for Brest and Saint-Malo
- Spain: lighthouses from Port-Bou to Valencia and of Balearic islands
- Italy: lighthouses of west coast of Sardinia, Genova
- Ireland: Fastnet
- Belgium: 4 new lights
Revision 2.2 (2015/02/11):
- more then 750 lighthouses and lights including overseas
- english version
- application looses weight: only photos for noteworthy lights are embarked (170), others are still available with an internet connection
- personalized marker for some lighthouses
- lights are categorized: lighthouse (at sea, on earth), light (noteworthy or not), tower, lightvessel with associated marker
- infos on fog signals
- infos on range lights
- infos on auxiliary lights
- zoom on user's location and predifined zones
Revision 2.1 (2013/07):
- new photos
- 50 new lights between Lorient and Paimpol
Revision 2.0 (2013/06/16)
- rewriting of maps management
- display of range and colored sectors with on/off switch
- in detailed view, map is now expandable
- new management of photos credits
- contact to submit photo
- settings
- search in list view
- number of shown lights depends on zoom level
- light's contry flag
- new photos
- 300 new lights
Revision 1.1 (2012/10/28)
- 200 lights
- added a glossary
- added visit informations
- callout close button enlarged
- new photos or profile for existing lights
Revision 1.0 (2012/06)
- first revision
- 151 lights
