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Large-Format Printable Wardriving Maps of Seattle

Posted by timothy on from the let's-see-free-maps-of-everywhere dept.

drewzhrodague writes "In what is sure to tie up a few print queues, us guys at WiFiMaps.com have released large-format printable maps of Seattle. These were generated during a collaboration with the University of Washington's communications department. This is one of the most comprehensive Wi-Fi mapping project to date, as 100 undergrads swarmed downtown Seattle to collect wardriving data. We've rendered their results at 300dpi, for letter, tabloid, and architectural E sized paper. There is both the standard layout, and the aerial versions available using bittorrent."

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  1. Re:Now you too can be arrested for war-driving... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    You might be hassled, but unless you live in a place with a really weird legal system, listening to an access point announcing itself to the world on a public channel, with unencrypted broadcasts, asking for its services the way you're supposed to according to the standard and then being granted these services by the access point is not illegal. Breaking through access controls (MAC-filters, WEP, login screens, etc) however is illegal. If it is illegal, build a portable access point, do a reverse war-drive and sue the heck out of everyone who connects to your access point because they have their computer in the default connect-if-you-can configuration.

  2. Re:We need a self-localizing map application. by GrAfFiT · · Score: 2, Informative

    The issue is that the strenght of the signal is not a linear function of distance. Just think about a signal passing through 3 concrete walls and direct sight antenna on the roof of a distant tower. They may have comparable strength but not the same distance. You can use a clock to measure the travel time but that would be recreating something even more complex than GPS.

  3. For the love of god..... by Espen · · Score: 1, Informative

    ....get with the proper scalable paper sizes. Any geek would revel in the rationality of the ISO A-type paper sizes

  4. Re:Strange Request by bird603568 · · Score: 2, Informative

    ok i have it mirrored http://bird603568.ath.cx/

  5. Now hosted on my fast server by agoodm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hosted on my fast server for your convenience. Hosted for a limited time as this is eating bandwidth... UW Printable maps non bittorent fast mirror http://files.photojerk.com/wifiuwprodraster.zip for raster map!!! Use http://files.photojerk.com/wifiuwprodvector.zip for vector map. Alan

  6. Re:Strange Request by thogard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since thats nearly dead....
    http://slashmirror.abnormal.com/