[OSM-talk] Copenhagen Data

Ben Gimpert ben at somethingmodern.com
Mon Jun 19 12:34:54 BST 2006


I've just committed my first draft of a NetStumbler (.NS1) to .GPX
converter.  Would someone please email me a sample .NS1 file, just for
testing?  (I don't do much wardriving of my own, but data format
conversions are cake.)

	http://svn.openstreetmap.org/utils/ns1togpx

Thanks.

		Ben


On Sun, 18 Jun 06 @11:42pm, J.D. Schmidt wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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