Re: Mapping signal strength

Brilliant Idea. I find the granularity of the consume site is a bit lacking.
This will give us a much better view of what nodes we do and DON¹T know
about ;-)

paul

On 9/10/02 12:58 pm, "Andy Laurence" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now that the GPS units a few of us ordered are winging their way here
> (Alex - you owe me £21 for yours), I've started thinking about uses.  I'll
> be making myself a mount for my tablet PC to fit in the car soon, and I
> think I'll permanently mount the GPS in the car.  Doug advised me on a cheap
> antenna design, so that's sorted.  After seeing Steve's cool software for
> mapping signal strength, and discussing it, I thought I'd map out exactly
> what I envisaged...
> 
> Anyone who's used wardrive will know how it works.  It basically polls every
> second for available wireless networks.  It logs any useful info such as
> SSID, channel, WEP, GPS location, etc.  I thought it might be interesting to
> combine the best bits of Steve's software, and the best bits of wardrive.
> Basically, when the tablet PC is in the car, it will constantly poll the
> wireless card and log signal strength along with useful things like SSID,
> channel, WEP, GPS location, etc.
> 
> This means that we could draw colourful maps depicting signal strength over
> the Bristol area.  Also, we will get an idea of location for each wireless
> network in the city.  This means we can tell them about Consume, and see if
> they are willing to participate.  Not difficult for them, and expands the
> Consume network at the same time.  What's everyone's thoughts on this?  I've
> not looked into how difficult it'd be to get all the data logged with
> wardrive/whatever software, so shoot me down if you like.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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