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Hi
I am Ivo founder of www.windy.com, non-commercial weather website.
We have radar overlay for USA and now we are finishing radar overlay for part of Europe (where the data are open). As we understand lightning data are CC. We would like to use them on Windy.com on real time basis and also donate to Blitzortung some amount. So far I have not found any API endpoints, or some description how to connect to data.
Is there someone willing to help?
IL
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Participants in the Blitzortung lightning network have access to lighting data that can be used on websites for non-commercial purppses. See http://en.blitzortung.org/cover_your_area.php.
I like the way your site shows wind flows. :-)
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Sign up for a detector or a few.
Egon does take donations, I send him $5 every month to help out with all he does getting the detectors prepared and shipped.
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(2018-02-12, 16:25)Windy.com Wrote: Hi
I am Ivo founder of www.windy.com, non-commercial weather website.
We have radar overlay for USA and now we are finishing radar overlay for part of Europe (where the data are open). As we understand lightning data are CC. We would like to use them on Windy.com on real time basis and also donate to Blitzortung some amount. So far I have not found any API endpoints, or some description how to connect to data.
Is there someone willing to help?
IL
I am an avid usr of windy.com. You are building a very good weather site, and it would be great if you could integrate Blitzortung Lightening strikes into one of your real time layers! i have just built and installed by Blitzortung System Blue in Manlius, New York. Good luck with your enhancements to windy.com!! R/ W2PJ - Pete
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(2018-02-13, 01:32)W2PJ-WX Wrote: (2018-02-12, 16:25)Windy.com Wrote: Hi
I am Ivo founder of www.windy.com, non-commercial weather website.
We have radar overlay for USA and now we are finishing radar overlay for part of Europe (where the data are open). As we understand lightning data are CC. We would like to use them on Windy.com on real time basis and also donate to Blitzortung some amount. So far I have not found any API endpoints, or some description how to connect to data.
Is there someone willing to help?
IL
I am an avid user of windy.com. You are building a very good weather site, and it would be great if you could integrate Blitzortung Lightening strikes into one of your real time layers! I have just built and installed by Blitzortung System Blue in Manlius, New York. Good luck with your enhancements to windy.com and please join the community of lightening trackers from around the world!
R/ W2PJ - Pete
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2018-02-13, 04:05
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-13, 04:06 by wbkkwx.)
May I suggest you drop an email to the admins at blitzortung AT gmx DOT org ?
Of course, getting a receiver or a few, will also help.
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2018-02-13, 08:40
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-13, 10:58 by DelandeC.)
We have to keep in mind that blitzortung.org has to be the main website for this project.
Only this one generates revenues that can be injected in the project.
Any third party websites will lower the trafic on the main website.
And, inderectly, the perenity of the project. 
It is not just boards lying around in the world.
We need processing power behind that.
Everything said is my own opinion.
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2018-02-13, 15:17
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-13, 15:23 by cutty.)
Note that DATA access and usage is limited to Operators, as stated above....
Restrictions are placed for such usage...
http://en.blitzortung.org/contact.php#contribution_4
Our real-time and archived data can also be used for external projects. - The project may not represent commercial interests.
- It must be of general interest for the participants of Blitzortung.org.
- It must be different from existing projects. Do not just re-implement other projects.
Do not setup yet another visualization of online data.
- All applications that use our data must be freely accessible.
- The source of the data must be clearly identified.
- The operator must prevent any possible misuse of the data provided, as far as this is possible.
The applications (web sites, apps, ...) have to retrieve their data from a separate server and not from the servers of Blitzortung.org. All data remain under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
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Hi Mike,
Also from that page:
Quote:The use of our raw lightning data is allowed only to the participants of the project or to those we explicitly have allowed it.
It's preferred that he be a participant; I wonder if an exception could be made (even a temporary one), perhaps starting at the time he orders a system? After all, there is a long wait for System Blue controllers.
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(2018-02-13, 15:33)mwaters Wrote: Hi Mike,
Also from that page:
Quote:The use of our raw lightning data is allowed only to the participants of the project or to those we explicitly have allowed it.
It's preferred that he be a participant; I wonder if an exception could be made (even a temporary one), perhaps starting at the time he orders a system? After all, there is a long wait for System Blue controllers.
It must be different from existing projects. Do not just re-implement other projects.
Do not setup yet another visualization of online data.
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