We are getting lightning strikes in range of my
Robo lmapgen map and there were no strikes showing on that map.
The perl script lmapgen.pl needs to have the line showing the $url from
data.lightningmaps.org to
data.blitzortung.org.
It should also be changed in the next "print "Fetching lightning data..." line.
Once I made this simple change, it started showing the strikes again. No other mods are required. It looks like his 0.7.1 version has the line changed:
for ($i = 1; $i <= 13; $i++) {
($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = gmtime ($ltime);
$url = sprintf ("http://%s:%s\@data.blitzortung.org/Data_%1u/Protected/Strokes/%4u/%02u/%02u/%02u/%02u.log", $user, $pass, $region, $year + 1900, $mon + 1, $mday, $hour, $min);
print "Fetching lightning data from blitzortung.org ...\n" if $verbose;
$content = get ($url);
unless (defined $content) {
print "Couldn't get lightning data!\n" if $verbose;
This the same issue that affected Ken's script last week or so.
Greg H.
Update and P.S.: The data2.blitzortung.org fix that worked for Ken's lightning scripts did not work for the Robo script. It is working again so, the original data.blitzortung.org must be OK now.