Walking Weather
May 17th, 2003 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |With highs in the high 70s and sunshine all day, it’s a perfect day to take out the Zaurus for another round of warwalking. With the Z in my hand, it almost seems silly to consider making these little covert passes through my town with a laptop - the preferred warwalking tool. The results could be mixed. We’re a very computer-literate city (primarily Macs), but still a bit in the back-waters when it comes to wireless.
Aside from the joy of discovery, this afternoon’s adventures will be research for an upcoming print article. I’ll need to keep copious notes, assuring that the thumb-pad on the Z will get a full workout, as well.
Unrelated to the article, I’d love to use php to turn the results into a map of the hot zones in Iowa City. It would be interesting to create a view of the overall wireless access here, from the highest level right down to individual blocks. And, given the small size of the data set, any web-based view would probably be pretty scalable for larger metro areas.
Any php developers out there willing to take up the challenge?
2 Responses to “Walking Weather”
By Deuce on May 17, 2003 | Reply
Hmmm, how would you go about this? Would you have several image maps that you would take the points and put down. Then scale the points locations based on the various image maps? (ie for a zoomed in image map you would have only points that are say XXX distance from a set center point, a larger map includes a larger radius of points)
It would be something very different to work on for sure. I have never looked at doing anything like it.
By Cory Simon on May 17, 2003 | Reply
Tony-
I believe that there are some tools that come with kismet 9you are using kismet right?). Have a look at the website or the kismet doc’s.
Hope this helps.