Important information for our visitors
Blitzortung.org is not an official authority for lightning or thunderstorm data. The data is provided only for private and entertainment purposes. The project Blitzortung.org is merely a voluntary hobby activity.
It is not allowed to use the data of Blitzortung.org for storm warning systems, for plausibility checks of overvoltage damages, or risk analysis for precautionary protection of high-quality technology, even if the data are not obtained directly from our site but from third-party websites.
All images marked by "CC BY-SA" are licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0" license (CC BY-SA 4.0) and may therefore be included on other websites under this license without further approval from us. The use of our raw lightning data is allowed only to the participants of the project or to those we explicitly have allowed it.
Disclaimer
We are not liable for the completeness, timeliness, quality and accuracy of the information on our website. We are not responsible for damages, resulting from trusting the content of our website or its use. This also holds if our data is obtained from third-party websites. Our sites contain links to other websites, whose contents are subject to change at any time. We are not responsible for the content of linked websites.
Privacy policy
We store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way whenever you interact with us, with our web servers, or by email. Our web servers obtain certain information when your web browser accesses "Blitzortung.org". You should ask the provider of your web browser what information your browser passes to web servers (IP address, operationg system, supported languages, ...) and how you can restrict this information.
Why we store data
We mainly store data (depending on the type of the data)
- to compute lightning and thunderstorm areas,
- to get in contact with the participants,
- to control access rights,
- to ensure a smooth operation of our computing and web servers,
- to improve the usability of our website, or
- to comply with law.
What other services and third-party software we use
Our website use Google AdSense (a program run by Google to serve automatic advertisements) and MyBB (a free and open source forum software).
Cookie policy
Our sites use browser cookies. Such cookies allow us to store small pieces of information on your device (computer, notebook/laptop, tablet, mobile phone) that can be read at a later time when you call our website again. "Limaps.org" and "Blitzortung.org" mainly uses cookies to store the basic settings you have selected on your last visit. For example, we store in browser cookies the last choosed zoom level of the dynamic map and whether you have confirmed reading the cookie policy. At your next visit you will proceed with the same dynamic map view and you will not see again the request to read the cookies policy.
The used services and third-party software Google AdSense and MyBB use also browser cookies whose use is not always known to us.
Contact
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| We receive a lot of emails every day. Since Blitzortung.org is purely a hobby project and we all earn our living through other jobs, we unfortunately cannot answer every email. Please use the forums. |
| Please do NOT use this contact information for requests about lightning strikes in your area at certain times. Please contact commercial location services for such queries. |
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And finally!
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A big thanks to all project participants who have sent data to Blitzortung.org over the years, helped with the development of the software and hardware, or contributed in any way and thus made the project possible.
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A big thanks to the developers of the Generic Mapping Tools. The Generic Mapping Tools, GMT, are an open source collection of tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing PostScript illustrations ranging from simple x–y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3D perspective views. It is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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A big thanks to OpenStreetMap and the contributors of Openstreetmap. OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
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A big thanks to OpenMapTiles. OpenMapTiles is an open-source project aiming to create world maps from open data. It consists of a set of tools allowing everyone to create their own vector map tiles from OpenStreetMap data for hosting, self-hosting, or offline use.
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A big thanks to
- the contributors of tilemaker, a program that creates vector tiles (in Mapbox Vector Tile format) from an .osm.pbf file ,
- the contributors of maplibre-gl-js, an open-source TypeScript library for publishing maps on websites with a great performance due to GPU-accelerated vector tile rendering ,
- EOX IT Services GmbH for the sentinel-2 satellite maps,
- the contributors of tileserver-gl, An open-source map server made for vector tiles able to render into raster tiles with MapLibre GL Native engine on the server side ,
- all others we may not have mentioned and also
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MapTiler
, a global mapping service provider and software development company whose team is the main contributor to the OpenMapTiles project. MapTiler also contributes to MapLibre, OSMNames, TileServer-GL and other open source projects.
