New WiGLE Client: Musatcha.com Advanced WiFi Mapping Engine

[izzy4505]

The Musatcha.com Advanced WiFi Mapping Engine v0.2.140 is now ready and waiting for your installation.

http://www.musatcha.com/computers/software/wifimapping/

Features:
Downloads data from WiGLE
Loads WiGLE mappacks as well as others
Client to Kismet
Can get GPS data directly from a GPS or via Netstumbler
Supports 255 GPS units simultaneously
Color coded APs by either channel, WEP, data source, etc...
Data Sheet for viewing details on all networks
Can channel hop a linksys wap54g and wrt54g. Wardrive with linksys gear! (This works extremely well because you can use nice heavy coax sraight off the back of the wap, and you've got kismet in win32)
Imports and Exports various formats
Plots waypoints and geocaches
Battery Meter
Magnifier when viewing maps
Voice Command Support built in!
Speech output built in!
Can automatically check for newer versions
Printing support (though may be slightly broken right now, I'm fixing it)

If anybody has any feature requests or bug reports and the like, feel free to post 'em on the forum at http://www.musatcha.com, or e-mail me at brad@musatcha.com. You name it, I'll (attempt to) code it.

Note that this software is still in the alpha stages. If you find something not finished yet, let me know as I may have forgotten about it, lol. I get a bit disorganized at times. [/list]

[izzy4505]

I got ambitious this weekend and added a few features, so I decided I'd post a couple screen shots.



The blue lines are my GPS tracks, darkness/lightness based on speed. (slower is lighter) All the dots are networks color coded by channel.



You can measure distances between stuff by right clicking.



I'm still working on expanding this tab, let me know if there's any analysis you'd like to see here.

[Sith4dmin]

That is all very good work. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually your software directly rivalled Digle/Jigle.

As far as suggestions for statistical analysis go, it would be nice to have a graphical access point vendor breakdown based on the OUI list.

BTW, I used to live on that map, back in `92-`96, on 8 1/2 St. Ct. in East Moline, Illinois. That's between 7th and 11th Streets, south of 42nd Ave. You need to do more wardriving in Davenport.

[pejacoby]

Wow, this is one awesome application. Just running it on my desktop with maps and such, can't wait to try it in the car while driving

When I try to fetch a map from TerraServer, I get interesting .NET error pages. TerraServer tells me my Lat can only be -90 to 90, while all my APs are in the W92.9 (-92.9) range. Problem? I'm in Washington County, MN.

[izzy4505]

Well Longitude is East and West where Lattitude is North and South.

Don't bother though, the "Get MapPacks" thing isn't written yet, lol. Direct terraserver support as well as support for a 3 page list of map sources I have here is planned, but first I've gotta learn how to convert UTM to dec lat/lon, lol.

To get TerraServer mappacks, just go to http://terraserver.microsoft.com, find a map you like, click on download, save the image, click on info, and using the coordinates on that page, make a .mappack file. (Just open one of the pre-existing ones in your favorite text editor to see how things are set up, it's pretty self explanatory. Just remember, lat/lon are backwards in those files.)

[uhtu]

fyi, there is a section on MapPacks in the wiki.

[izzy4505]

A little note on the differences between the ways the Musatcha client uses mappacks....

You can have as many images as you want, as long as it starts with image.0 and continues consecutively to the biggest image you have.

Paths are completely ignored and the images are assumed to be in the same directory as the .mappack file.

You can use bmp, gif, jpeg, png, tiff, and a couple other formats for your map images.


Also, the first 3 characters in ShortName are going to be important in a not too distant future release for determining the type of map. TGR for WiGLE's TiGER parsed stuff. DOQ for terraserver, and that's all I've gotten so far so feel free to invent.

[uhtu]

at least for JiGLE you can use any number of images (but more images Get Big Quick) and any image type that your JRE can load.

is the type just for the different aspect corrections? its an interesting/important idea. perhaps we should do that in JiGLE too....

[izzy4505]

The mappack type is going to be used primarily for preferences, such as what types of maps to load while just driving around and auto-loading by GPS. In situations like I've got in the quad cities, where I've made a bunch of maps that overlap in some areas, it can be annoying loading a new map every mile or so, especially if I just want a TGR to begin with. The auto-loading automatically shuts off when loading a map manually, but on a long trip it is often desireable just to load a certain type. Later as I figure out how to do the project format corrections, it will be used to figure out the projection format and calculate accordingly.

What really needs to happen though is a new mappack format that has room for data such as the projection format. Ideally it seems the best way to do this would be with XML. I've got some very rough DTD stuff typed up, let me know if anybody has any ideas for what else needs to be in there other than coordinates (for all 4 corners for different projection formats), a short name, long name, description, data source, data date, URLs for the source and other information, URLs for possible download-on-demand imagery, etc. What I'd like to do is get it set up so a user could just click a link on a web page and the mappack would automatically download and stuff, but I'd like to come up with a format that'd be as universal and futureproof as possible.

[izzy4505]

As far as suggestions for statistical analysis go, it would be nice to have a graphical access point vendor breakdown based on the OUI list.

Support for OUI statistics has been written into the latest version. Just download this:

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

and save it to the same folder as wifimapping.exe

[mentat]

Well Longitude is East and West where Lattitude is North and South.

Don't bother though, the "Get MapPacks" thing isn't written yet, lol. Direct terraserver support as well as support for a 3 page list of map sources I have here is planned, but first I've gotta learn how to convert UTM to dec lat/lon, lol.

Check out the perl module w/ my old Terraserver script for UTM to lat/lon conversion.

[izzy4505]

Yep, that's what I've been hackin' away at, converting it to VB function by function, lol. Slow process but maybe one of these days I'll get it done. Hey Mentat, you wouldn't by chance know how to fix the offset would you? Seems that the USGS is using a different North reference or something.

[mentat]

Yep, that's what I've been hackin' away at, converting it to VB function by function, lol. Slow process but maybe one of these days I'll get it done. Hey Mentat, you wouldn't by chance know how to fix the offset would you? Seems that the USGS is using a different North reference or something.

Which offset do you mean? I think I ended up brute forcing some stuff with Terraserver as indicated by my random constants in the regular script.

[kai]

what about using mappoint maps? any way to do this?

ive tried to do an manual import map from the north american templates map to no avail.

any way to convert it? or am i just missing something?

[izzy4505]

what about using mappoint maps? any way to do this?

If you can get an image of a map from there, and coords for the top left and bottomright corners, you're good to go. See http://www.wigle.net/wiki/index.cgi?MapPacks