[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":470},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-11187507":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":47,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":84,"maker_in_thread":243,"shape":245,"grid":250,"attempts":431,"same_week":432,"maker_shows":33,"maker_hidden":462,"reader_version":463,"card":464},"11187507","Wifi","500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world","title","Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world","http:\u002F\u002Fgetwi.fi","getwi.fi","_jt2r",1456590223,2016,153,72,212,2264,10,"notable","consumer_social","wifi hotspot map","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"wifi hotspots","free wifi map","open wifi","wifi finder","curious",-0.297,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},5,29,1,20,55,{"idea":37,"execution":39,"pricing":42,"privacy":43,"design":44,"docs":45,"performance":46},{"positive":38,"critical":31},2,{"positive":40,"critical":41},0,12,{"positive":40,"critical":33},{"positive":40,"critical":38},{"positive":40,"critical":40},{"positive":40,"critical":40},{"positive":38,"critical":40},[33,33,33,48,48,48,48,33,48,40,31,31,40,40,33,33,33,40,33,33,33,33,48,48,31,33,33,48,33,33,33,33,33,48,48,33,31,48,48,33],3,null,{"problem":51,"audience":49,"pricing":49,"motivation":49,"time_to_build":49,"stack":63,"openness":82,"stage":83,"team_size":82},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Finding nearby open WiFi hotspots while travelling or out","inferred",[55,59],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"11187702","glossyscr","Wrong question. I don't care where I can find free WiFi. Nowadays, every damn coffee shop, hotel or mall has free Wifi—I care about fast and free WiFi with speedy up- & downloads…",{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"11187839","icebraining","EDIT: Why the downvote? I didn't downvote you, but your post did sound rude to me. Finding free wifi may be easy where you live, but it's not the \"wrong question\" for many…",[64,75],{"value":65,"source":66,"evidence":67},"Mapbox","commenter",[68,72],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"11190812","rgawdzik","I forwarded this problem to Mapbox, thanks for letting me know!",{"id":73,"by":70,"text":74},"11187691","Try by street; We are using Mapbox's geocoding API so it's a bit inaccurate compared to Google's.",{"value":76,"source":66,"evidence":77},"OpenStreetMap data",[78],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"11188702","fineIllregister","I'm always glad to see maps using OpenStreetMap data over Google Maps. I always find it fun to look over the edits I've made, and it helps point out where more detail would be…","unknown","launched",{"praise":85,"objections":97,"requests":166,"questions":198,"alternatives":217},[86,93],{"value":87,"source":66,"evidence":88},"Good visual density view of WiFi coverage",[89],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"11188168","sinak","Looks really great - love the web view of WiFi density, and great to see more efforts in this space. We've built something similar at OpenSignal. Our WifiMapper [1] app on iOS…",{"value":94,"source":66,"evidence":95},"Well executed implementation",[96],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},[98,113,128,143,155],{"value":99,"source":66,"evidence":100},"Many listed hotspots are not free, only open",[101,105,109],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"11187906","jjawssd","This is not mapping free WiFi hotspots. This is mapping open Wifi hotspots. They are not the same. For example, KPN in the Netherlands is not free, and xfinity wifi in the USA is…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"11187672","notdang","If an WiFi hotspot doesn't have a password doesn't mean it's free.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"11189894","thrillgore","Not all of these Wifi APs are \"Free\" and its partial in a lot of spots. Still, good effort.",{"value":114,"source":66,"evidence":115},"Data includes printers, VMs and unsecured home routers",[116,120,124],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"11193194","unholygoat","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…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"11189231","codingdave","Bad data set. You are missing most of the free wifi spots in my town, but do show a number of people who just haven't secured their routers.",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"11187813","detaro","pretty sure the latter. I've seen printers, chromecasts, ...",{"value":129,"source":66,"evidence":130},"Map fails to render or zoom properly in some browsers",[131,135,139],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"11189751","GigabyteCoin","I am redirected to https:\u002F\u002Fmeshable.io\u002Fmap 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…",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"11190228","kalleboo","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…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"11192402","geografa","Is your browser compatible? http:\u002F\u002Fcaniuse.com\u002F#search=gl",{"value":144,"source":66,"evidence":145},"Many known free hotspots are missing",[146,150,154],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"11187647","vinay427","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…",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"11188904","kristopolous","I've had two open ones for years that didn't make the map :(.",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},{"value":156,"source":66,"evidence":157},"Location accuracy problems with geocoding and search",[158,162],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"11187679","RKearney","Searching by zip code zooms the map into areas 20-40 miles outside of the actual area code. At least that was my experience with the 2 that I tried.",{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"11189394","basvdwollenberg","I've seen some I added myself with Instabridge (another WiFi sharing app), the location of some of the networks are wrong because the app messed up sometimes (my school network…",[167,179,185,191],{"value":168,"source":66,"evidence":169},"Add tagging or a feedback form to mark free, paid or low quality hotspots",[170,173,176],{"id":171,"by":103,"text":172},"11188255","I suggest you allowing tagging of each hotspot and assigning some sort of label to each hotspot. Thanks! Some crucial filters: 1. Free vs Non-Free 2. Free time limit Some…",{"id":174,"by":103,"text":175},"11188293","Don't remove them, just tag them and adjust tags based on votes. Also, always consider the threat of abuse.",{"id":177,"by":70,"text":178},"11187984","You are right. I already removed the xfinity hotspots. We'll be adding a feedback form into our web + mobile app so non-free or low quality APs can be removed.",{"value":180,"source":66,"evidence":181},"Show verified status and time-to-live for hotspots",[182],{"id":183,"by":103,"text":184},"11188913","Also consider setting a time-to-live for each hotspot. They come and go. Also mark 'expired' and 'verified' hotspots as such. Most will be unverified, of course.",{"value":186,"source":66,"evidence":187},"Show hotspot speeds",[188],{"id":189,"by":70,"text":190},"11187716","Yup, 100% agree. We actually know the speeds of a minority of these APs. We'll be bumping them up in the searches + advertising their speeds soon.",{"value":192,"source":66,"evidence":193},"Show coverage areas instead of single points",[194],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"11190382","jon-wood","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.",[199,210],{"value":200,"source":66,"evidence":201},"What is the data source?",[202,206],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"11187582","techaddict009","What is the source of this data? As I see my tier 3 city also has few free wifi listed here.",{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"11187875","chinathrow","Like what?",{"value":211,"source":66,"evidence":212},"Is it safe to use these hotspots?",[213],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"11188551","hkmurakami","Id also want to know which hotspots I can actually use safely.",[218,225,229,236],{"value":219,"source":66,"evidence":220},"WiGLE",[221],{"id":222,"by":223,"text":224},"11189009","bobzilla42","239,989,522 wifi networks: https:\u002F\u002Fwigle.net",{"value":226,"source":66,"evidence":227},"WifiMapper by OpenSignal",[228],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},{"value":230,"source":66,"evidence":231},"Wiffinity",[232],{"id":233,"by":234,"text":235},"11188098","4lejandrito","Nice work! This reminds me to something I tried a while ago: https:\u002F\u002Fwiffinity.com They basically provide the same thing but as a crowdsourced list of truly free hotspots and you…",{"value":237,"source":66,"evidence":238},"Mozilla Location Service",[239],{"id":240,"by":241,"text":242},"11187895","titusnicolae","https:\u002F\u002Flocation.services.mozilla.com\u002F",{"comments":40,"answered":40,"key":244},[],{"commenters":246,"max_depth":247,"maker_replies":40,"first_comment_mins":248,"lifespan_hours":249},53,6,25,60,[251,253,255,259,263,266,269,271,274,276,277,280,282,286,288,289,292,295,299,301,303,307,311,314,316,318,322,325,326,329,332,336,338,340,341,344,346,350,352,354,356,357,359,360,363,365,366,368,372,375,378,379,380,384,386,388,389,391,394,396,399,403,404,407,409,411,413,414,417,421,424,427],[102,40,33,252,103,40],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fidea",[177,40,48,254,70,40],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[256,40,33,257,258,40],"11188215","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fexecution","hmpc",[260,40,33,261,262,40],"11188253","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fpricing","benbristow",[264,40,48,254,265,40],"11188557","thesimon",[267,40,48,254,268,40],"11188775","OJFord",[270,40,48,254,265,40],"11189806",[272,40,48,273,196,40],"11190357","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[171,40,48,275,103,40],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[174,40,48,275,103,40],[278,40,48,275,279,40],"11188167","ux",[214,40,48,281,215,40],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy",[283,40,33,284,285,40],"11188755","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fprivacy","nissehulth",[287,40,48,281,103,40],"11189750",[183,40,48,275,103,40],[290,40,48,275,291,40],"11189712","xobs",[293,40,40,294,103,40],"11189748","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[296,40,40,297,298,40],"11190258","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","nefitty",[90,33,31,300,91,40],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea",[79,38,31,302,80,40],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[304,48,48,305,306,40],"11187681","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","lucb1e",[308,48,40,309,310,40],"11187865","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","dnlrn",[312,48,40,309,313,40],"11187929","pyvpx",[315,48,40,309,265,40],"11188565",[317,48,40,309,196,40],"11190372",[319,320,48,275,321,40],"11187732",4,"wging",[323,320,33,257,324,40],"11187900","maxerickson",[106,31,33,252,107,40],[327,31,33,252,328,40],"11187830","alexcroox",[330,31,40,294,331,40],"11188616","dave2000",[333,31,40,334,335,40],"11189078","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing","ropiku",[337,31,40,334,196,40],"11190376",[339,31,33,252,61,40],"11187850",[147,247,48,254,148,40],[342,247,33,257,343,40],"11187917","ahi",[195,247,48,345,196,40],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign",[347,348,33,257,349,40],"11188939",7,"babuskov",[240,351,40,309,241,40],8,[132,353,33,257,133,40],9,[69,353,48,355,70,40],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[140,353,48,254,141,40],[358,353,48,254,133,40],"11200848",[222,18,48,275,223,40],[361,18,40,309,362,40],"11189892","greggman",[233,364,31,300,234,40],11,[136,41,33,257,137,40],[367,41,48,355,141,40],"11192430",[369,370,33,257,371,40],"11189122",13,"cbd1984",[203,373,48,374,204,40],14,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdocs",[376,373,48,377,70,40],"11187625","maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fdocs",[207,373,48,377,208,40],[163,373,33,257,164,40],[381,373,40,382,383,40],"11187650","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea","Ao7bei3s",[121,385,33,257,122,40],15,[159,387,33,257,160,40],16,[73,387,48,355,70,40],[117,390,33,257,118,40],17,[110,392,48,393,111,40],18,"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fidea",[151,395,33,257,152,40],19,[397,34,40,309,398,40],"11190173","danjayh",[400,401,48,275,402,40],"11187674",21,"fla",[125,401,40,297,126,40],[405,401,48,275,406,40],"11187877","rorykoehler",[56,408,33,252,57,40],22,[189,408,31,410,70,40],"maker\u002Fpositive\u002Fperformance",[412,408,31,410,57,40],"11187726",[60,408,40,294,61,40],[415,408,48,254,416,40],"11187855","mightybyte",[418,419,48,345,420,40],"11187613",23,"lukasm",[422,419,40,423,383,40],"11187618","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign",[425,419,40,423,426,40],"11188021","DocG",[428,429,33,284,430,40],"11187818",24,"ryanmarsh",[],[433,438,443,448,452,457],{"id":434,"name":435,"points":436,"category":437},"11213475","Flexbox Defense",243,"learning_science",{"id":439,"name":440,"points":441,"category":442},"11192398","Bitfly",239,"security_privacy",{"id":444,"name":445,"points":446,"category":447},"11211344","Sensible Bash",173,"dev_tools",{"id":449,"name":450,"points":451,"category":442},"11188686","siga",149,{"id":453,"name":454,"points":455,"category":456},"11174815","CuriosityStream",129,"web_saas",{"id":458,"name":459,"points":460,"category":461},"11191394","54.86.121.4",126,"ai",false,"v2",{"id":465,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":462,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":28,"s":466,"top":18,"kw":467,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":40,"strip":468,"url":9,"mix":469,"praise":87,"objection":99,"sub":21},11187507,-0.3,[24,25,26,27],"1113333130550011101111335113111113315331",[31,32,33,34],1794036541455]