kugelblitz

kugelblitz

A web application to display lightning events on a map in realtime.

Requirements

• Lightning location sensors for providing the lightning data
• PostgreSQL / PostGIS for storing and processing the lightning data from the sensors
• Go for building kugelblitz

Usage

1. Prepare the database. See the file schema/README.md for a sample database.
2. Set the environment variables. See the file doc/ENV.md for details.
3. The software utility cron is used for maintenance and cleaning work. See cron/README.md for setting up cron properly.
4. Start the kugelblitz with ./kugelblitz.
5. Testing in the browser.

Goto http://<SERVER>:5000/ to test the application.

Development

See the file doc/DEVELOPMENT.md for build instructions on GNU/Linux.

For using kugelblitz in an AWS Elastic Beanstalk (ELB) Environment see file doc/ELB.md for more details.

Support

Please use Bitbucket for questions: https://bitbucket.org/intevation/kugelblitz/issues

License

This is Free Software governed by the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for details. Copyright 2012 - 2018 Siemens AG. Engineering by Intevation GmbH.