> 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?
Actually, for http://www.WiFiMaps.com, we use UMN's Mapserver, and
distil the wardriving uploads we get into PostGIS for mapping. Our engine
is down for maint right now, but there are some rendered tiles on the site
that you can look at in the meantime.
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