Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
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Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
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Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#2This is related to, but NOT A DUP of, the post incorrectly titled "Google map a cellphone knowing its MAC address" at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=298073. The article intruiged me but I knew there had to be an easier way to send any MAC address to their API since there is no way for them to remotely determine your MAC address. In the blog post I show how.
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#3Skyhook knows where your access point is because at one time they drove by and mapped it. Google is probably collecting the same information from their street view vans. All you need is a laptop with a GPS receiver to log coordinates and MAC addresses.
So why not do it yourself? http://wigle.net/ is a public access point MAC address mapping site run by community contributions of location information.
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#4Skyhook knows where your access point is because at one time they drove by and mapped it. Google is probably collecting the same information from their street view vans. All you need is a laptop with a GPS receiver to log coordinates and MAC addresses. So why not do it yourself? http://wigle.net/ is a public access point MAC address mapping site run by community contributions of location information.
I looked through the wiggle database. A TON of their information is super old. Of course there's no way to know how old SkyHook's is since it's totally private.
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#5Does this mean that if you upgrade your router and put the old one on eBay and sell it to someone across the country, Skyhook's data is inaccurate (until they next drive by)?
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#6Skyhook knows where your access point is because at one time they drove by and mapped it. Google is probably collecting the same information from their street view vans. All you need is a laptop with a GPS receiver to log coordinates and MAC addresses. So why not do it yourself? http://wigle.net/ is a public access point MAC address mapping site run by community contributions of location information.
I looked through the wiggle database. A TON of their information is super old. Of course there's no way to know how old SkyHook's is since it's totally private.
Skyhook loves to tell you how recent their data is. They re-drive high turnover areas (colleges) a few times a year. Everything else is quite recent. With Skyhook's high profile use in the iPhone they can't afford to be out of date.
Last I checked they had over 45 million access points recorded. With enough users, the system can become self sustaining. You upload all the detected access points in your area for a request so it's trivial for them to auto-update their system if you submitted a newly discovered or changed MAC address.
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#7Does this mean that if you upgrade your router and put the old one on eBay and sell it to someone across the country, Skyhook's data is inaccurate (until they next drive by)?
yup
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#8curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml" --data "http://skyhookwireless.com/wps/2005' version='2.6' street-address-lookup='full'>betajs.loki.comYOURMACADDRESS-50" https://api.skyhookwireless.com/wps2/location
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#9Skyhook knows where your access point is because at one time they drove by and mapped it. Google is probably collecting the same information from their street view vans. All you need is a laptop with a GPS receiver to log coordinates and MAC addresses. So why not do it yourself? http://wigle.net/ is a public access point MAC address mapping site run by community contributions of location information.
Thanks for the wiggle.net link... I've got a place to put my wardriving data now! :)
Re: Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
#10curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml" --data " http://skyhookwireless.com/wps/2005' version='2.6' street-address-lookup='full'> beta js.loki.com YOURMACADDRESS -50 " https://api.skyhookwireless.com/wps2/location
haha cmd line ftw, nice
except you have an extra xml tag at the end