wardriving and visualizations

[aaronpk]

I've been logging GPS data for about a year and a half. (You can see
some of the data here: http://aaronparecki.com/GPS_Visualization) I
use an app on my Windows Mobile phone to log the GPS data, and my
phone has a wifi antenna that stays in the "off" position most of the
time. I met with Don the other day and he introduced me to the
geomena.org project. I realized it should be possible to log access
points along with my existing GPS logging. It was easy to install
Airomap on my phone, so now I can log wifi points too!

So far I've only made about 5 trips with the wifi antenna on, but I've
already logged 1485 unique mac addresses, and 317 open access points.
And this is only on my normal route to and from work, I haven't made
any special wardriving trips yet.

Here is a heatmap visualization of the access points I've logged so
far: http://pin13.net/geomena/ This uses a custom tileserver I wrote
to provide an additional data layer to the map. Hotter spots on the
map correspond to more open access points in that area.

There is also a version which shows each access point as a marker on
the map so you can click on them. http://pin13.net/geomena/points.php
Currently if you hover over the point you'll see the ESSID and the
number of times that point has been logged.

Again, these maps are still in their infancy, since I've only logged 2
days worth of points on very narrow routes. But it's amazing that I've
already driven by 1485 access points just in the normal course of the
day. I'm looking forward to continuing logging data and eventually
importing it into the geomena database. It's easy to see how quickly
we could map out the entire city with just a couple people running
loggers!

@aaronpk

[AdamD]

This is great stuff, Aaron. Thanks for sharing. Do you think you could
document how you've done it on your Windows Mobile phone? Especially
once we figure out a flow to mass import data, it would be awesome to
get a collection of these instructions for different platforms
available on the Geomena site.

--Adam

On Jan 1, 2:28 pm, aaronpk <aa...@parecki.com> wrote:
> I've been logging GPS data for about a year and a half. (You can see
> some of the data here:http://aaronparecki.com/GPS_Visualization) I
> use an app on my Windows Mobile phone to log the GPS data, and my
> phone has a wifi antenna that stays in the "off" position most of the
> time. I met with Don the other day and he introduced me to the
> geomena.org project. I realized it should be possible to log access
> points along with my existing GPS logging. It was easy to install
> Airomap on my phone, so now I can log wifi points too!
>
> So far I've only made about 5 trips with the wifi antenna on, but I've
> already logged 1485 unique mac addresses, and 317 open access points.
> And this is only on my normal route to and from work, I haven't made
> any special wardriving trips yet.
>
> Here is a heatmap visualization of the access points I've logged so

> far:http://pin13.net/geomena/This uses a custom tileserver I wrote

> to provide an additional data layer to the map. Hotter spots on the
> map correspond to more open access points in that area.
>
> There is also a version which shows each access point as a marker on

> the map so you can click on them.http://pin13.net/geomena/points.php