Who's Derek and do I know him? Pick a day for lunch, I should be around for the rest of the month, and I can come to Church Brew or something if we plan it.
On Jan 20, 2008 12:47 PM, Drew from Zhrodague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In line with your reply, what I'm getting at is, does anyone know the > > approximate density of towers in central London/central Oxford? > > In APs per square meter? We have some stale data at WiFiMaps.com. > I'm still looking for help from interested developers. There's some > discussion starting on the website on how to help with a rough plan. > > http://www.WiFiMaps.com > > > The idea we were working on, was to take advantage of the data > provided by the community of wardrivers, and provide that as a location > platform. The key is in figuring out how to accurately place the > discovered access-points geographically, which makes positioning from a > client far more accurately. > > We used a weighted average, since I couldn't figure out the math > for something more accurate. Otherwise, it is just signal strength, and a > profile for the client's WiFi radio and antenna characteristics. Didn't > placelab have some kinda setup for that? > > Also, the software we run on is all FOSS software, and any code we > generate (and data too) will be released either GPL or CC. I still need to > talk to Derek about licensing. Please contact me if you're interested in > helping out or lerning more. > > > > -- > > Drew from Zhrodague http://www.WiFiMaps.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pghwireless.net > http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotpgh > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking >
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