2004-06-10
The State of Wireless London
INFO VISUALIZATION:Julian Priest has an interesting piece up about, well, "The State of Wireless London."
Shown here is a visualization of shown nodes for commercial wifi services in Greater London, however the piece talks about home and office wireless access points also. In a fairly crude manner, he estimates the total number of WAPs inside the M25 highway circling London to be about 20,000:
Shown here is a visualization of shown nodes for commercial wifi services in Greater London, however the piece talks about home and office wireless access points also. In a fairly crude manner, he estimates the total number of WAPs inside the M25 highway circling London to be about 20,000:
¶ 3:34 PM
Total Distance flown 348.4 km
Total nodes seen 1525
Radius of view ~0.5 km
Flight height ~0.4 km
Ground area covered ~0.3 km -2
Total area covered ~98 km -2
Node density ~15.5 nkm -2
Estimate of nodes within the M25 ~19451
