[OSM-talk] Copenhagen Data

[J.D. Schmidt]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> A week or two ago, I mentioned on the dev list that a wigle-user 
>> asked me to write a script to convert Kismet logs into GPX. I 
>> did it, and the result is that he's been working non-stop on 
>> populating Copenhagen with data ever since.
> 
> That's great!  Do you know how many Kismet logs we could find out 
> there?  Did anybody collect them already, or should we call out to 
> all the old free wi-fi mailing lists?

There's no repository of log files, but most of the wardrivers I know, 
keep their logs for statistical purposes etc. The closest thing to a 
repository is www.wigle.net, where logs are uploaded, network data 
extracted and stored in a DB for plotting on the web based map, as well 
as in offline clients. But that is only the network data, not the track 
data.

I'm a moderator over at the Netstumbler forums (www.netstumbler.org), 
and will be posting about OSM and Wardriving being a nobrainer match.
Afterall, they drive up and down roads, and uses gps's to log 
coordinates allready.

Just need somebody to write a Netstumber2gpx converter, just like 
Christopher wrote a kismet2gpx converter on my request.

gpsbabel can only read Netstumbler text summary exports, which doesn't 
contain the track data, only one gps coordinate for each detected 
networks. The Netstumbler binary file contains trackdata, and is 
described here : http://www.stumbler.net/ns1files.html.

With those 2 converters, 95 % of all wardriving logs could be utilized 
for OSM. I have already an offer from a belgian wardriver, who has 
logged about 205000 networks in Belgium and the Netherlands over the 
past 3 years, to submit his Netstumbler data, if a converter is made.

I'm certain that other wardrivers wouldn't mind submitting their data as 
well.

J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt

P.S. It was me who submitted data for Malmø, as noted on your wiki 
diary. (trace : http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/user/Dutch/4390 ) 
Went over the bridge to Malmø for dinner and a walk, and ofcourse 
brought the wardriving rig. But since I don't know Malmø that well, and 
don't have any sources I can use to refer to while editing, I didn't 
edit the swedish part of the trace for that trip.