On 29-Sep-17 11:03 AM, André Pirard wrote:
On 2017-09-29 02:22, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
Hi
Noticed in the discussion of the devices tag, mention of devices
attached to telephone booths, which got me thinking.
Here in Australia, Telstra provides public wifi access via it's
Telstra Air network (https://www.telstra.com.au/telstra-air), which
is also linked to the international Fon network
(https://network.fon.com/).
A lot / most of Telstra's wifi spots are mounted on public telephone
boxes (the pink bit's shown on the above link :-)) - I don't know
about Fon?
Fon works as a public service on consenting private WiFi routers
<https://maps.fon.com>.
The router software completely isolates the private and public parts
of the router
Access to any working Fon router is granted to anyone who consents to
open the service on his own router or for a price. Consenting people
are charged on their home bill the traffic they use elsewhere.
Usually, router users are unaware of Fon and are consenting by default.
It would, of course, be a totally useless chore to update Fon comes
and goes on OSM and to duplicate the Fon map.
Cheers
André.
So, do we have a tag for public wifi / internet spots?
I can't see anything for one, but I guess it would come under
amenity=*, same as amenity=telephone for public phones?
Free internet tagged as
internet_access=wlan
fee=yes/no (yes = free)
access=public
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:internet_access%3Dwlan
As per the above OSMwiki don't use amenity=*.
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