I looked at blitzortung.org once because I was interested in detecting lighting while being on a boat. Especially to know the distance (the direction can be seen).
But a device can only measure the moment of discharge. Only in combination with other devices a position of the lightning can be established.
Maybe somebody wants to have a go at this. Because there are a lot of very expensive boats out there. Especially the ones with carbon masts...
Is there a way to show where detectors are located? Otherwise how to know if there is no lightning in an area or no detectors?
Where does this pull real-time lightning data from?
It took me an unpleasantly long time to figure out that this is a map of lighTning, as in the weather phenomena. Not lighting maps for rendering.
This is awesome! I live down the road from "The Lightning Field" art installation ... Will be cool to see how accurate this is for our remote area
http://www.diaart.org/sites/main/lightningfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lightning_Field