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January 23, 2008

Map of Irish wifi hotspots (you can help)

Our collaborative map of Irish wifi hotspots is starting to look busy and you can help maintain/update it simply by logging in to your gmail account to edit it.

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Nice initiative James!

I started a Grazr where all the wifi hotspot maps can come together: http://grazr.com/read/fzelders/bfda8de1

Posted by: Fred Zelders | Jan 24, 2008 11:38:11 AM

That's excellent, thanks Fred. I've copied your grazr to my account :)

Posted by: James Corbett | Jan 24, 2008 2:34:21 PM

Great idea. Hope to avail of it in my travels.

Don't forget the public libraries. There are probably too many to show, but they are providing a great wifi service.

I'm not sure if there is full national penetration yet but it is certainly in most if not all of the Dublin libraries.

Posted by: Póló | Jan 27, 2008 4:06:38 PM

Thanks Póló, I'm going to check out my own public library next week to see if they have a hotspot.

Posted by: James Corbett | Jan 27, 2008 6:22:49 PM

Are these hotspots on this map free or do they have to be paid for to access them?

Posted by: Cronan | Jan 31, 2008 11:50:49 AM

A large number of the hotspots are free Cronan. As for FON and BT Openzone hotspots that depends on your subscriptions levels

Posted by: James Corbett | Jan 31, 2008 12:05:12 PM

James just thought I'd mention that Google Maps now has a search option to allow search for "user created content". If you search for Irish wifi then this map comes top of the list.

It'll be interesting to find out a bit more about the search method as I'd expect alot of geo-spam now. User created kml showing locations of viagra and "enlargers" will be commonplace I predict.

Posted by: Will King | Feb 1, 2008 12:27:29 AM

Hmm, I'm not seeing that Will. Are you searching under maps.google.com or maps.google.co.uk? When I search under the .com address for "irish wifi", what I get is a list of American results starting with McMullan's Irish Pub. So then I click on the new 'Community maps for Irish wifi' option above the list which allows me to perform the search again while restricting the results to user-generated content. But when I do that my results don't seem to have changed much and I don't see our community map among them. Am I doing something wrong?

Posted by: James Corbett | Feb 1, 2008 9:42:26 AM

Nice job!

Posted by: Reena | Feb 10, 2008 8:36:33 PM

I need a map alright, as I am really lost on this one, or maybe I should enter eejit of the year competition ?.

BrianClarkeNUJ

wifi hotspots ??

Posted by: BrianClarkeNUJ | Feb 17, 2008 8:35:18 PM

I need a map alright, as I am really lost on this one, or maybe I should enter eejit of the year competition ?.

BrianClarkeNUJ

wifi hotspots ??

Posted by: BrianClarkeNUJ | Feb 17, 2008 8:36:10 PM

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