Mapping wifi availability easily

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Wifi is something that should be ubiquitous so that our digital lifestyle may not be limited to being online at home or at work. It should include, bars, restaurants and city squares. In some cities wifi is easy to find but in others that’s not the case.
The lazy way to do wifi mapping could be with the geo loc software on the n95, a flickr account and free wifi. Everytime you find free wifi, get the GPS co-ordinates, include them in the exif and upload them to twitter. Once that’s done get the rss feed of the geo tagged images and feed them to google earth.


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2 responses to “Mapping wifi availability easily”

  1. Friend in Austin finds wi-fi on her daily bus ride to/from work. Has to turn off the Airport wireless to avoid the networks popping up.

  2. I recently had a similar idea, I also have a new N95 8GB and I noticed there’s a lot of free Wi-Fi around Prague where I live. My first post to Ovi was about free Wi-Fi access I found: http://www.twango.com/media/PragueBob.public/PragueBob.10001
    What do you think is the quickest way to share these findings, I didn’t qunderstand what you meant by “including in the exif”.

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