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
> 
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