On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:44:08PM -0500, Andy Warner wrote: > Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > > Questions and comments are welcome, if you have a specific area you'd like > > mapped (such as your home) I'm accepting requests (no promises), zoomed > > maps are available if you provide the address or gps coordinates. > > Can you share the bouncing ball that you follow to create > these from lat/long/signal/noise data ? > > If my memory isn't failing me, I think you mentioned downloaded > maps, overlayed with the data. I've got a raft of data > that I'd like to plot, if you can teach us(me) to fish. > -- > andyw at pobox.com > > Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634 [Responding to both emails] My setup: Vehicular: 1988 Chevrolet Silverado 4wd Approx 6' thick aluminum pole some J hooks, metal plates, nuts many gallons of 87 octane unleaded fuel (http://www.poptix.net/gallery/802-11/wardrive_mobile) Wireless: (1) 8dBi Omnidirectional Antenna (16" long) (www.fab-corp.com) (1) 15' Chunk of LMR-400 (www.fab-corp.com) (1) D-Link DWL-650 Prism2 based wireless card, with a self-soldered pigtail (SMA) (Best buy, $49.95 after $10 mail-in rebate) Computer: IBM ThinkPad 755CD (486 DX4-100, 24 megs of mixed parity/non-parity ram) (* Note * If anyone has something a little faster, capable of running X, with working PCMCIA slots, and perhaps a battery that lasts longer than 20 minutes I would greatly appreciate a trade/loan/good price, this thing is on its last leg, and isn't capable of capturing packets as fast as they come into the PCMCIA adapter =/ ) Software: linux-wlan-ng drivers v0.1.13 (www.linux-wlan.com) kismet (www.kismetwireless.net) prismstumbler (prismstumbler.sourceforge.net) I've written some perl scripts to automate the annoying tasks, as well as something to parse the output from prismstumbler (it also beeps, so I can watch the road while driving). After collecting data you can use the gpsmap program (included with kismet) to graph the data you collected, options can be tweaked to give a nicer looking map. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203