TuxMobil: Linux & Wireless Communities Around the World

Wireless City

Besides so-called "hotspots" (places like airport, where you often can get Wireless LAN) access, there are some projects, which try to provide a Wireless LAN for a whole city, region or country.

Wireless-FR - Paris (France)
SPEKA - Paris (France)
Goettinger Funk LAN Projekt - Goettingen (Germany)
Metronet - Wien (Austria)
Nantes-wireless
Wireless-Lyon
Wifi-Montauban
Angers-Wireless
SFLan is an experimental community wireless project in San Francisco. The goal is to build a network with LAN characteristics (openness, ownership, speed, price) on a metropolitan scale.
OpenHotSpot - OHS is a global database of publically available Wireless LAN HotSpots. Join now and add your HotSpot to the database so that other users may surf it! OHS features a WavePoint system.
Wireless-NRW

Linux Applications

phpWirelessMap is a set of PHP scripts created to generate dynamic maps for wireless communities web sites.

Wifimap is an Web-based application that graphically documents the organisation and growth of a wireless network community. The map is composed of numerous square cells that are recombined to display the required area. Users can start with just a few cells to cover their area, and can access different areas of the network by scrolling through the cells.

phpKisMapper is a PHP class which processes Kismet logfiles to create a map of wireless networks. Using the built-in XML parser and the GD library, the class reads GPS co-ordinates on wireless access points, downloads a map from the Web, and outputs the map with the recorded wireless APs.

Other Resources

Related Books

Rob Flickenger: Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition, 2003

From the Publisher: "Building Wireless Community Networks is about getting people online using wireless network technology. The 802.11b standard (also known as WiFi) makes it possible to network towns, schools, neighborhoods, small business, and almost any kind of organization. All that's required is a willingness to cooperate and share resources. The first edition of this book helped thousands of people engage in community networking activities. This revised and expanded edition adds coverage on new network monitoring tools and techniques, regulations affecting wireless deployment, and IP network administration, including DNS and IP Tunneling.

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