Openstreetmap has many lighthouses on the Spanish Coast:

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/87R

You can change the bbox and investigate the other coast lines easily with
that query.

Jo

2015-03-11 10:37 GMT+01:00 Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com>:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:24 AM Markus Krötzsch <
> mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> No, you are right: this is of course an issue in the completeness of our
>> data. If you zoom in to Europe, you can see that some countries have
>> costs full of lighthouses, while others seem to lack them almost
>> completely. I think it clearly shows that a lot of our data comes from
>> Wikipedias (in some specific language).
>>
>> In this instance, the issue appears to be that the existing lists on
> Wikipedia have not been touched, e.g.:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lighthouses_in_Spain
>
> These, including redlinks, could be imported into Wikidata rather easily.
> Some already have images.
>
> Ideally, we'd want some "official" (e.g. national, UN) source to
> cross-check.
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