[HN Gopher] WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping
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       WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping
        
       Author : dp-hackernews
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2025-09-24 12:10 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (wigle.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (wigle.net)
        
       | jjkaczor wrote:
       | Man - I loved this "back-in-the-day", uh... 23-years ago...
        
         | edm0nd wrote:
         | I still go around and war drive and upload em to WiGLE!
         | 
         | They make it really easy now. They even have an app you can
         | download on your phone and just open up while driving and start
         | logging and then it just uploads it to WiGLE when you hit stop.
        
           | supportengineer wrote:
           | I believe that is Android-only
        
       | nunobrito wrote:
       | Thank you for sharing. Didn't knew it.
        
       | xd1936 wrote:
       | See also: https://beacondb.net/
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895672
        
       | move-on-by wrote:
       | If you want to be excluded from this - as well as from: Google,
       | Microsoft, Apple lists- you have to add '_nomap' to the end of
       | your wifi name.
        
         | eigencoder wrote:
         | I thought it was _optout_nomap (the _optout for Microsoft,
         | _nomap for Google/Apple)
        
           | move-on-by wrote:
           | Hmm... I was under the impression that MS had added support
           | for `_nomap` as well somewhere... but now I'm not finding any
           | references to that. I suppose at the end of the day, you have
           | to trust that they even follow their opt out policy at all.
        
             | baby_souffle wrote:
             | And you'd probably have to rotate out the MAC address and
             | broadcast name. At this point, cat is out of the bag. I'm
             | brand new network name and Mac address with the opt-out
             | flags is only going to keep you out of the honest databases
             | :(
        
       | skowalak wrote:
       | A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth
       | beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net . Since
       | Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good
       | alternative for geolocation and they are public domain.
       | Unfortunately, data dumps are currently not available, though.
        
         | eliaspro wrote:
         | The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to
         | MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their
         | endpoint to continue working.
        
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