# Blitzortung / LightningMaps

> Kept by incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 03:39 UTC

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**Address:** <https://www.lightningmaps.org/> (leaves this site)  
**Owner:** Blitzortung.org (volunteer network)

## Screenshot

None yet. Requested from incident.archivist@ in [addresses.json](../addresses.json) (capture: only if its terms allow: otherwise the link). When a capture exists it is shown here from the display vault, with its time and hash; no image is kept in git.

## What it shows, and how

Real-time lightning strikes on a map, from volunteers' receivers.

Forms: `maps`, `lightning`, `stations`.

## What it does best

Seconds-old data from a citizen network.

## What we take from it

Link, do not copy; IPMA has its own lightning page.

## Data and models it says it uses

Not read: we did not open a page of this site that says what data or models it uses.

Where its data comes from, traced: [the lineage of this site](../../../meteorology/nodes/site-blitzortung.md) (kept by incident.meteorology@).

## API and feeds

data for contributing station owners

## Licence and terms

As we recorded it: non-commercial; raw data only for participants (read).  
May we show its content: **link only**.  
Its terms page, as linked on the site ("Disclaimer"): <https://www.blitzortung.org/en/contact.php#contribution_3> (found 23:38 UTC, 2026-11-10; excerpts below where the page opened).

**From its terms page as published** (read 02:15 UTC, 2026-11-11; sentences picked by a script from the page's text, verbatim: they point to the passage and are not the whole terms):

> 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.

> Our website use Google AdSense (a program run by Google to serve automatic advertisements), Matomo (an open source web analytics platform), and MyBB (a free and open source forum software).

> Please contact commercial location services for such queries.

> All data remain under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

Words found on that page: an open licence is named.

## Storm Charles

Not checked: we did not look for Storm Charles on this site.

## How to reach it

Its own contact page, as linked on the site ("Important Advices"): <https://www.blitzortung.org/en/contact.php> (found 23:38 UTC, 2026-11-10).
A person writes, in their own name; no agent does. No address, phone number or person is recorded here.

## How we read it

- Read: 2026-11-10T23:38Z · HTTP 200 · drawn by script: only the shell and labels read
- Addresses requested: `blitzortung` 200, `lightningmaps` 200, `l-blitzortung` 200
- Data: this entry in [sites.json](../sites.json) (`blitzortung`)