Comments on: Kismet + GPSDrive + MySQL + Python = Google Earth Wlan Map

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:50:27 +0000

What an innovation, guys like you are needed in the world.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:07:32 +0000

hi what wireless device did you use i dont think mine is supported what have people used that they know will work

By: Will Blakey

Will Blakey — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:21:06 +0000

oh ,i ran “geoinfo –all”, and even reinstalled mysql and postgresql as well.

By: Will Blakey

Will Blakey — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:10:04 +0000

Well , I reinstalled Ubuntu, and at least now kismet is working.

Then i did the create.sql bit and i’m getiing:

connection to host=/var/run/postgresql dbname=gis user=root password= connect timeout=4 failed
FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user “root”

When i run gpsdrive

By: admin

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:41:48 +0000

Will, you need to create the database (check the MySQL section of this post)

By: Will Blakey

Will Blakey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:21:06 +0000

and this from gpsdrive:

wlan_rebuild_list: Error in query: Table ‘geoinfo.wlan’ dosen’t exist

By: Will Blakey

Will Blakey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:05:11 +0000

just looked at the shell output from kismet:

WARNING: Disabling GPS logging.
WARNING: Could not open waypoint file ‘~/.gpsdrive/way.txt’ for writing: No such file or directory

I checked, and that filepath DOES exist.

By: Will Blakey

Will Blakey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:19 +0000

after running kismet, gpsdrive will not load. here’s the shell output:

SQL: connected to localhost as gast using geoinfo
Creating main window

kismet server found
Using Mapnik config file: /usr/share/gpsdrive/mapnik/osm.xml
Read 503 POI-Types from /usr/share/gpsdrive/map-icons/icons.xml
Error while using mysql
Table ‘geoinfo.wlan’ doesn’t exist

google search on ‘geoinfo.wlan’ turned up absalutaly nothing.

please help

thanks

By: efremigio

efremigio — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:42:17 +0000

Hi, I modified your python script to work with the new gpsdrive mysql table. I hope you do not bother: http://www.efremigio.es/gpsdrive-y-google-earth/

At the moment avaliable only in spanish.

Thank you.

By: Pierre D

Pierre D — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

How impressive! Thanks for this illustrated howTo.

I would be very interested in doing this same experience around the place of Nation (in the east of Paris), just to see. From my flat, last time I checked, I could see 5 different wireless networks.

Could you give the model of your GPS? I was looking for a cheap one (Garmin eTrex for example) I could connect to my laptop but the price (even on eBay) was too expensive...