[Tagging] Public wifi (Fon)

[André Pirard]

On 2017-09-29 02:22, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Hi
>
> Noticed in the discussion of the devices tag, mention of devices
> attached to telephone booths, which got me thinking.
>
> Here in Australia, Telstra provides public wifi access via it's
> Telstra Air network (https://www.telstra.com.au/telstra-air), which is
> also linked to the international Fon network (https://network.fon.com/).
>
> A lot / most of Telstra's wifi spots are mounted on public telephone
> boxes (the pink bit's shown on the above link :-)) - I don't know
> about Fon?
Fon works as a public service on consenting private WiFi routers
<https://maps.fon.com>.
The router software completely isolates the private and public parts of
the router
Access to any working Fon router is granted to anyone who consents to
open the service on his own router or for a price. Consenting people are
charged on their home bill the traffic they use elsewhere.
Usually, router users are unaware of Fon and are consenting by default.
It would, of course, be a totally useless chore to update Fon comes and
goes on OSM and to duplicate the Fon map.

Cheers

André.


> So, do we have a tag for public wifi / internet spots? 
>
> I can't see anything for one, but I guess it would come under
> amenity=*, same as amenity=telephone for public phones?
>
> If we don't, should we?  
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme


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