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Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

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Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

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post #8

If an WiFi hotspot doesn't have a password doesn't mean it's free.

Agreed, in the UK The Cloud isn't free

The Cloud is particularly awkward as sometimes it's free, but not always. I assume in the places it's free the people running the hotspot are paying rather than the end user.

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#72
post #6

A point of constructive criticism is that there are some inconsistencies in how large-scale public WiFi seems to be handled. For instance, in Ann Arbor, MI every University of Michigan building AFAIK has free public WiFi (as well as a private network for university affiliates). However, I only see a few listings for the "MGuest" network in the area. Is there a better feasible way of handling this?

I'd probably go for some sort of area marking with a rough estimation of AP range, allowing wide area networks made up of many APs to show as one chunk of coverage.

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#73

I am redirected to https://meshable.io/map which is a blank page. I even disabled uBlock and refreshed the page and still saw nothing. All I can see if a hand for a cursor, and my right click button is disabled to even check on the source.

I forwarded this problem to Mapbox, thanks for letting me know!

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#74

This isn't working for me, after I zoom in past a certain level, all the blue dots just disappear. Clicking a city name search result zooms in so far that the map goes blank (presumably it's past the available tile sets) Tested in Safari and Chrome

I forwarded this problem to Mapbox, thanks for letting me know!

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#75

I am redirected to https://meshable.io/map which is a blank page. I even disabled uBlock and refreshed the page and still saw nothing. All I can see if a hand for a cursor, and my right click button is disabled to even check on the source.

Is your browser compatible? http://caniuse.com/#search=gl

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#76

This isn't working for me, after I zoom in past a certain level, all the blue dots just disappear. Clicking a city name search result zooms in so far that the map goes blank (presumably it's past the available tile sets) Tested in Safari and Chrome

That shouldn't be the case. Mind sending specifics about your browser/OS and city queries to help@mapbox.com and we can take a look?

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#77
Hmmm I get the feeling that one of your 'sources' for the db comes from the users who have already installed your app. Just a tin-foil-hat hunch based on the density of nodes in certain areas (read: certain routes). Too bad 60%+ are HP-Printers or vmguests...either way it'd pay to clean all that up if you're promoting that they're free/open hotspots.

Re: Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

#78

I am redirected to https://meshable.io/map which is a blank page. I even disabled uBlock and refreshed the page and still saw nothing. All I can see if a hand for a cursor, and my right click button is disabled to even check on the source.

Is your browser compatible? http://caniuse.com/#search=gl

Apparently not. I am using the latest Firefox which is only partially compatible with webgl.
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