UK / Mapped Streetlight Atlas
This atlas tracks mapped streetlights and public lighting inventories, with clear caveats on coverage — so you can use lighting as honest context when planning surface markings.
OpenStreetMap `highway=street_lamp` coverage
OSM currently has about 6.18m mapped street-lamp objects globally, but coverage reflects mapping effort, not real lamp counts.
| Region | Mapped lamps | Relative coverage |
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Why this matters for line marking
Lighting data becomes useful when it is tied to surface visibility: car park entrances, pedestrian routes, service yards, crossings and worn markings in low-light areas.
When a site has poor lighting or high night traffic, line contrast and repaint planning become the next practical step. Review car park line marking only when the surface-marking need is real.
How to read this data
Figures describe mapped streetlights and council open-data inventories, not a complete real-world count. Treat global totals as a coverage indicator, and lean on local datasets where they exist for site-level visibility planning.