Recently got into this and have mapped most of my area. There's a bit of insecure networks that I could hop on but it's mostly noise in the sea of the internet.

The most interesting thing I have discoved so far is that my elderly neighbors have a CPAP machine. I found out because that CPAP broadcasts BLE. I didn't look much into it, but medical devices shouldn't be broadcasting anything imo.

Previous:

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33209163 - Oct 2022 (932 comments)

WiGLE – collected wireless hotspots around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965790 - Jan 2022 (3 comments)

WiGLE: Huge WiFi Networks Geolocation Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19203951 - Feb 2019 (10 comments)

Reminds me of the good ol' days of wardriving SF with 14 WRT-54Gs running aircrack-ng in the back of my GTI.

These days our devices do the sniffing for us. Back then unearthing a BSSID felt like discovery! It felt like exploration.

A proprietary database that you can contribute to but can’t download, that they then dual-license for cash.

Someone, please build an open alternative.

Scanning through the SSID stats, looks like the top non-default wifi names are:

1. skynet

2. pretty fly for a wifi

3. FBI Surveillance Van

4. virus

I was under the impression you could opt out of this using ‘no_map’ at the end of your WiFi, but after reading the FAQ I saw no mention of it. Then searching based on SSID, sure enough there are tons of entries matching “%no_map”.

I would like to ask, what practical uses do similar data have in production scenarios? For example, to count the density of a crowd? Verify the authenticity of a company or for other purposes?

It's kind of crazy to see how prevalent MYChevrolet and/or myGMC are. There are more MYChevrolet / myGMC SSIDs than attwifi. I have to think this is because so many people are doing the stumbling from inside of a vehicle.

I wonder if this isn't a GDPR violation of a pretty large magnitude? Especially because the way to get removed is this:

> If you want a record removed from the database, please include the BSSID (MAC Address) of the network in question!

There have already been a few wifi tracking cases within the EU where the perpetrators lost. A lot of this was used to track people in things like shopping malls though, so it's not exactly the same, but what came out of them was basically that people have to opt-in rather than opt-out if you want to do any sort of tracking.

Are there any alternatives? The usability on this site is not very user friendly imho.

I like how you can faintly see flightpaths if you zoom all the way out

Why there is no iOS app?

linksys.

linksys everywhere.

This is woefully outdated. Many SSID are not listed in their results.

Very cool when launched. Not practically useful today.

"log in to use this feature" nope