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Wi-Fi Warsailing In The Netherlands
Roland writes "The first war-sailing event ever, AFAIK. A community based WiFi network in Leiden, the Netherlands, WirelessLeiden hold a warsailing event [Dutch links]. The war-sailing event was meant to show that WirelessLeiden is more than just a local city network. On this map you can see that 75% of the route was covered by WirelessLeiden. Vic Hayes, the Father of WiFi, was a keynote speaker during the war-sailing event. He gave a talk about how WiFi was developed. A couple of spin-offs gave presentations, namely AnyWi and KoGeRo. FYI: WirelessLeiden [English Link] has rolled out a free WiFi network covering almost the whole city of Leiden, 100.000 inhabitants, 49 nodes with 30 more to be build this year. This is the NodeMap of WirelessLeiden."
Thats awesome but: "The war-sailing event was meant to show that WirelessLeiden is more than just a local city network." how is it more than just a local city network?
Whoever dies with the most toys wins.
I'm guessing its wardriving but on boats ;-P Wardriving is driving around and looking for hotspots (places you can connect WiFi).
Whoever dies with the most toys wins.
Sailboats can move by river current also. In fact, on rivers, the main way that a sailboat gets power is like a kite- the tension between the wind on the sail and the current on the dropboard. This, given proper angles between the two, can even be used to sail a sailboat UPSTREAM, though you've got to do a lot of tacking to do so.
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I was always under the impression that war*ing was not about maintaining a link, but about locating hotspots.
Didn't it start with "warchalking" where somone would put a chalk mark on a wall or footpath or something indicating that you could get wireless access from there?
From what I understand, these war driving / flying / sailing events are about producing a map that someone can use later to find the locations.
Advanced users are users too!
A sailboat (barring a motor) can't go straight upwind. A modern racing rig can get within a point or two, but most can't even get near that. Figure on 45 degrees off of the wind as maximum upwind performance. But anything else and she's good. Although it's interesting to notice that a straight downwind is not a sailboat's fastest point of sail.
Leiden is a small (110,000 inhabitants) city in the west of the Netherlands. Its main claim to fame is its university (430 years old now and going strong). We get a lot of american tourists since Leiden was the location where the pilgrim fathers lived before taking ship to what would one day be the USA. Every year I get to disappoint a couple of americans coming over for a visit: only a few remnants of walls remain of that church (and for some reason they are always asking _me_ where it is!?). But do keep coming - there is lots of other stuff to see ;-)
The area to the north of Leiden has a lot of open water (small connected lakes), and makes for excellent sailing. Around the lakes is where we grow all those flower bulbs. For a rural area it has one of the highest population densities in the world, which helps explain the proliferation of wireless access spots I guess.
The office where I work is just about on top of one of the access points: "Rabo" is about 20m away from where I sit. When we tried last year we couldn't pick up any signals, but I'll try again today, see if it actually works now.
The area covered by the entirely wireless network goes far beyond the city limits: from the North Sea beach to approximately 20 miles inland. And including the lake district.