The Maurader's Map of Olin
The Maurader's Map of Olin: an opt-in location-tracking system designed and implemented by Andrew Barry and Benjamin Fisher. Bringing the Maurader's Map from Harry Potter to real life :) Read more on the projects page.
The Maurader's Map of Olin: an opt-in location-tracking system designed and implemented by Andrew Barry and Benjamin Fisher. Bringing the Maurader's Map from Harry Potter to real life :)
Client runs on Windows and Linux. Correct to room-level precision, as of April 2008, used by over 1/4th of the entire student body of Olin College.
Andrew Barry, Benjamin Fisher, Mark L. Chang, “A Long-Duration Study of User-Trained 802.11 Localization,” In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments (MELT 09), 197-212, September 2009. Awarded best paper. download pdf.
More information in early blog posts.
A screenshot of the web interface with the new custom icon feature:
