[BAWUG] A definitive hotspot list

[Julian Bond]

Has anyone found what you might call a definitive list of hotspots?

Maybe this is an exercise worthy of King Canute, and maybe there will come a time when it's unnecessary because WiFi access will be everywhere. But right now I feel the need for a definitive list of hotspots world wide. This should include every commercial hotspot showing the company operating it and with a link to it's terms and prices along with every deliberately free to air service.

I think this requires some manual collation rather than simply war-driving. The problems are many. All the current directories I've found are seriously incomplete. Each provider lists it's own hotspots but not competing provider's. Lists such as Consume.net have too many non-working nodes. And we're in the middle of explosive growth so keeping the data up to date is going to be hard.

I think this is one of those "should exist" systems. I wonder who's going to build it?

http://wifi.ecademy.com/node.php?id=3347

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