Kismet does this, and comes with a program to interpolate power levels and overlay the graphics on a map. Sounds like you have your own mapping software, you'll just want to convert the gpsxml to an arcmap format.
Kismet runs on OSX as of the latest versions. -m On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Chris Snell wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm a Geography undergraduate student here in Texas and have access to > some pretty neat GIS cartography software. I went wardriving around my > neighborhood tonight and got a sampling of access points (SSID, MAC, > signal strength, WEP, etc). I wrote a little Perl script to convert > KisMac's output into an ArcMap-friendly format and plotted some access > points overlaid above a street map of my town. I didn't spend much > time on this but the results were pretty neat. I now have a visual > representation of every visible AP in my area. Now I would like to > take this to the next step: I want to make a rasterized map of WiFi > signals that covers my neighborhood in greater detail. I want to walk > up and down my street, GPS and iPAQ (or powerbook) in hand and get > multiple samples for every access point I find. I want to plot these > samples and create visualizations of the wireless signal "fields" in my > area. > > Here's my problem: all the WiFi-sniffing software that I've used > creates only one record of each access point found. I need something > that will record SSID, MAC, and (most importantly) signal strength and > location for every packet that it sniffs. I realize that this will > probably be a lot of data. > > Has anybody here experimented with this stuff already? > > Chris > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- "If I must be lonely, I think I'd rather be alone." -- "Save Yourself", Stabbing Westward
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