Licensing enquiry - professional use of lightning data in Spain
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Dear Blitzortung team,

We are GET Tech Innovation, S.L., a Spanish company serving insurance-claims professionals. We operate GET Radar, a weather-monitoring service used to cross-check reported property claims against observed weather. The service is currently free and in calibration; it displays real-time lightning activity with attribution while it remains non-commercial. We are aware that your conditions prohibit commercial use of Blitzortung data and, expressly, their use for "plausibility checks of overvoltage damages" and "risk analysis" - so before our service ever becomes a paid product we want to clarify the licensing position, and we will remove the lightning layer entirely if no path exists.

Our question: does any licensing path exist (directly with Blitzortung.org, with individual station operators, or through an authorised commercial partner) that would allow:

1. displaying real-time lightning activity in a commercial web service, with attribution; and
2. using archived strike data to assess the plausibility of lightning-related insurance claims?

If such a path exists, we would like to know its conditions and cost. If it does not, we would appreciate a short confirmation so we can close this line permanently.

Kind regards,
GET Tech Innovation, S.L. (Spain)
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#2
Blitzortung is not a general-purpose public lightning-data service or API provider.

The network exists primarily for participating station operators and the cooperative lightning-location project itself. Its data is not offered as a general source for private applications, websites, hobby projects, research tools, AI-assisted projects, or other third-party services.

Publicly available Blitzortung maps and related services may be used where appropriate. Direct access to the underlying lightning data is not provided for general third-party use.

If your project requires a general source of lightning data for use in your own application or service, you should look to a provider whose purpose is to supply that type of data.
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