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This was so much fun to use. I built perl scripts around this (learning at the same time differences between lat/lon and UTM) to map wireless access points[0][1].

0. http://wigle.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9 1. http://wigle.net/gps/gps/main/download/

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Thank you for sharing this.

Do you have a snapshot archive since you first started this? I wonder how much the landscape has changed since then.

I can see if there's anything in any of my backups. Nowadays I'd just use Google Earth's history feature (optionally feeding in time based KMLs of access points). I think the WiGLE interface supports time filtering, but I don't know if that's officially exposed.

Thanks! It probably isn't exposed, but it would be nice to see these grow over the years. It may even expose other things like how community hubs have shifted and what demographics are being catered to. Overlays from census data or other insights might reveal some interesting things.

WiGLE, just a little bit. I still wonder what happened to blackwave. :)

Yeah, I've been wondering about that for a few years. After he disappeared, none of the Irvine people would even talk about it.

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