Goofi! – Seekbrain.com

What do you do when you have a GPS receiver and a wireless card? Well, naturally, you hook it up with Google Maps and see what it looks like.

Introducing, Goofi! It’s all very Betaish now but basically it does the following:

– Collection occurs using some rather nasty collection scripts correlating GPS coordinates & iwlist scanning information and storing it into a flat text file. I could have used Kismet here but the target platform I’m thinking of won’t have an X11 terminal so that’s not too available.

– Data is dispatched to a DB upload script

– Data is displayed through an XML generation script and made clickable to the record data.

Things todo:

– Make collection much more automated. I’ve got a fanless 18V based machine I’m thinking I might be able to hook up to be powered permanently from the car. That’ll mean I can enable ‘constant’ wireless scanning to any destination driven.

– Correlating ‘commercial access’ wireless points into some sort of grouping component (ie. “Show me Telstra access points around this area”).

– Using MarkerManager better with some sort of ‘clustering’ component (ie. some circular geometry to identify ‘clusters’ and show them)

– Open sourcing this and inviting people to submit data. It’d be pretty cool to get a whole bunch of contributors submitting data around the world. Maybe then I can go wherever and NOT have to go hunting for commercial wireless points to check email! 🙂

As always, any thoughts, suggestions welcome (use email link on the page itself).

Stu

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