it would be nice to start gathering statistics on usage an NYCwireless nodes. for NoCatAuth-based nodes, we could set up a central syslog facility - then the stats could be accessed through MYSQL/PHP etc and support any number of alternative mapping/visualization experiments.
Emenity has built a system like this and could help setting one up for NYCwireless. our current solution is rather awkward though - if someone wants to try and wrestle with msyslog (which has native MySQL support but almost no documentation) that would offer a much better long-term solution.
reporters always ask me how many people are using NYCwireless nodes, and i tell them i have no idea.
you could address privacy concerns by applying a one-way hash to MAC address as you parse the Nocat log files
On Nov 19, 2003, at 3:59 PM, jon baer wrote:
would doing this type of map for nycwireless nodes be a privacy concern?
(or even possible)
http://www.cmusky.org/map_usercentric.html
- jon
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