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Originally Posted by streaker69
You reinvented the wheel for your thesis project?
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Maybe yes and maybe not :-)
Kismap is google maps based, it's faster, provides some details of the networks and makes on the fly parsing/displaying of the scanner's log files.
I wished to make something really simple and immediate to use, but there's a lot of geocaching logic behind it...
The networks are fetched asynchronously from the db and shown on google maps, wigle instead is based on static map representation, like an image that needs to be regenerated and it's slower.
Besides, kismap can show only the first 500 networks around the point you click, otherwise the javascript app would crash, and the geospatial query takes some seconds to execute on my really tiny server.
So kismap approach is quite different from wigle, but I'm not saying that's better.. It's just an experiment for my thesis and for learning programming Ruby on Rails