TABLE OF CONTENTS You have gone for a WarDrive. You now have a set of logged access points with their coordinates and other relevant data, and you think, How am I going to make some use of this? How will I be able to see patterns in the geographical distribution of access points? Mapping your data sets may be the answer.
There are several ways to map data. StumbVerter is a tool that s designed to take advantage of the automation capabilities of Microsoft MapPoint. MapPoint is commercially available mapping software that covers North America and Europe. StumbVerter processes data captured with NetStumbler and generates maps that you can easily view and manipulate. You can also access online mapping engines that create maps for you free of charge. In this chapter we discuss the process of installing, configuring, and using StumbVerter to map your WarDriving results as well as using the Delphi Geographic Logging Engine (DiGLE). By the end of the chapter, you will know how to create colorful and informative access point distribution maps.
When we go for a WarDrive, we gain real-time information about the wireless access points we find along a route. But what happens when we finish and go home to process the results?
One way of representing the wireless world in our local area is to map the results of our WarDrives and extract our conclusions from the resulting maps. Here are some examples of information we can gather once the data is mapped:
