[wsfii-discuss] Re: More on maps -was- Re: [Community] Worldwide Map of wireless communities ?

Thu Jul 13 16:31:18 UTC 2006

Drew, (et al)

Depending on what you mean when you say RF math, we use a great program 
to do antenna propagation studies as well as path plots called Radio 
Mobile. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html

Hope this helps,

Ken DiPietro

Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
>> I like. Providing a global mapping and listings is a good example of 
>> SNP :)
>> Certainly, that will have a small value add by just listing any 
>> visible ssid like in a war-driving contest, and makes more sense to 
>> aggregate information of free infrastructures.
>> Good idea to setup servers, just willing to see if I can help who 
>> wants to build one.
>> I don't care about having a "centralized data" as long as we agree on 
>> how to interchange it (SNP). I mean, as long as a new the map server 
>> understads GML, we can export the guifi.net information to it, and 
>> from the guifi point of view, we'll be happy to be mapped given that 
>> is about free infrastructures.
>> Personaly I liked mapscript, not because is a web-service oriented 
>> software, if necessary you still have a chance for redirecting to 
>> another site while zooming in a certain region.
>
>     Looks like I missed a bunch of the discussion, but I'm here to 
> pipe-up.
>
>     I don't seem to be such a good cult leader, and I've had trouble 
> getting help with WiFiMaps.com -- so I'll ask for help, and offer help 
> at the same time.
>
>     I've been thinking about lots of this stuff, talking to some of 
> you guys, and experimenting with a bit of the different software 
> packages. There's tons of interesting things to do with WiFi data. I'm 
> not such a great programmer, so there are a bunch of things I haven't 
> been able to do or figure out myself (RF math, statistics, etc).
>
>     So, here's an offer for the entire WiFiMaps.com database, which 
> we'd like to publish under the GPL. We don't have a good method of 
> exporting it now, other than some of the wrappers around Mapserver's 
> GML stuff.
>
>     Any takers?
>

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