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:: Overview

Wlandscape is a software-tool to collect and visualize informations of wireless networks. It allows to display several data, such as their expansion, signal-strength and status. The single wireless networks are displayed on a topographical map.
At first the development was motivated by a study project at the University Of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern, Germany – location Zweibrücken. The rapidly raising occurrence of wireless networks all over the world positively shouted for a software product combining informations about wireless networks and their topographical visualization. Although there are already tools able to show wireless networks they only display informations about them in a list without the ability to use maps. For this task another software had to be used parallel so far.

The software's functionality varies depending on the operation-system used.
If the software runs on Linux distributions it will primary allow to collect wireless network informations. When running on Microsoft® Windows® systems it just serves for visualization of already detected wireless networks. This manual is intended to guide through the Microsoft® Windows® installation and its use. Please refer to the corresponding Linux manual in order to receive informations about this installation and usage.

:: About

The founders of wlandscape

Benjamin Angel, Niko Bender, Jochen Bräuer, Christoph Müller, Steffen Schuler, Marcus Schug, Felix Noz, Thomas Müller, Steffen Schreiner and Christian Graß.

The father of wlandscape

Prof. Hendrik Speck, university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern, location Zweibrücken

:: Contact

Newsserver / Mailinglists

news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.wlandscape.user
news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.wlandscape.devel

:: Requirements

Hardware

A x86 or compatible PC, with at least an Intel® Pentium®-Processor rated at 166MHz
minimal 64Mbytes RAM
at least 10Mbytes harddisk-space in order to allow proper working
A SVGA-capable graphics-adapter, screen-resolution should be at least 800x600 Pixels
An internet connection (at least for loading mapsets)
Optional: A GPS-Receiver with serial- or USB-interface, capable to offer a virtual COM-Port to the system and fulfilling the NMEA-Standard

Software

Microsoft® Windows®, Version 95/98/ME or NT 4.0/2000/XP
A Sun Java-Runtime installed, Version 1.4.1 or higher
Direct access to the internet; if you have a firewall installed, you will have to allow java or javaw to perform an internet connection.

:: Download & Install

Download the latest build
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67485

Follow these steps in order to install wlandscape:

Download a Build-version from SourceForge
Extract the file to a clean directory
Make sure you have an actual Sun Java Runtime-Version (JRE) installed
Copy the file javax.comm.properties out of the main-directory to your JRE-lib-directory
Edit the run.(bat|sh)-file so that the java-home-directory matches your Java-installation
Start the application by executing run.(bat|sh) from within the wlandscape-directory

Required 3D-Party Software

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)

:: Screenshots

:: Documentation

Documentation for the end-users

Documentation - english (HTML)
Documentation - english (PDF)

Documentation for the developers

JavaDoc - english (HTML)

:: License

wlandscape is released under the General Public License (GPL), which means that it can be used for free as well under commercial as under private conditions. Additionally you are allowed to adapt wlandscape to your own suggestions. Additional Information to the GPL...

:: Links

- wardriving.com
- wardriving.ch
- hotspots.ch
- mobileaccess.de
- wardriving-forum.de
- wireless4berlin.de

:: Special thanks to

Our friends

Christof Dallermassl, Jens Kohl, Peter Schley, wardriving-forum.de

Our sponsors

We are grateful that Q23 Hosting from Berlin/Germany hosting our official homepage and Sourceforge.net to give us the posibility to publish our project to the opensource-community.