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MKGP was my first foray in to geospatial visualization of wardriving data. I'd got plenty of georeferenced Kismet logs from wardriving with the Helix boys, but just looking at XML files doesn't give me wood.
I started with the map plotter that is in the Kismet distribution, but soon discovered that it was based on GPSDrive, which is pretty fundamentally broken. I of course, didn't know this at the time, but in the process of proving so to myself I ended up writing a raster mapping engine in python. I toyed with a couple of realtime moving map display projects, which you can see elsewhere, but ended up using the code to write MKGP, a map vizualiser for Kismet.
One of the particular requirements is that it had to work in New Zealand, that is, with our crazy domestic map reference system. I didn't understand yet quite the horror this meant (I learnt from my mistakes for the 3d map viz engine for MWTP, however.)
Despite being new to this whole GIS thing, MKGP is quite usable in NZ. It auto pulls maps from the government map server and has a python based query language for filtering your data. It has all manner of configurable display knobs, for rendering approximated range circles, packet-to-source lines, and all that sort of guff.
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2006-12-18 21:38:11
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