Wardriving guides
Everything you need to go from "I have a laptop and a car" to "my drive is on the map". Pick the hardware you already own — none of these need much money.
Wardriving with Kismet
Set up Kismet with a GPS on Linux, capture a drive, and export netxml you can upload here.
Read the guide →Hak5 WiFi Pineapple and Pager
Use a WiFi Pineapple or Pineapple Pager for wardriving, and get the data off it.
Read the guide →Build a dual-band ESP32-C5 rig
A XIAO ESP32-C5 and a NEO-8M that hear 2.4 and 5 GHz, buffer a whole drive, and upload on a button press.
Read the guide →LilyGO T-Dongle-S3 with an external GPS
The same firmware on a USB dongle with a screen: four wires to a GPS module and it lives in a car socket.
Read the guide →Wardriving with WiGLE on Android
Turn the phone in your pocket into a complete rig with the WiGLE app, and upload the CSV here.
Read the guide →Wardriving with an iPhone
There is no WiGLE app for iOS and a stock iPhone cannot scan WiFi — here is what to do instead.
Read the guide →Do it yourself via API
Feed the live map from your own rig or script: tokens, batching, retries, and reading the archive back.
Read the guide →Wardriving in practice
Antennas, mounting, routes, GPS lock, and the etiquette and law of collecting wireless data.
Read the guide →The short version
- Get a GPS fix. Everything here is worthless without position data. If your device reports 0,0 you have no lock, and this site will reject the dump.
- Drive slowly. 30–50 km/h gives the radio time to hear beacons. Motorway speeds miss most of what you pass.
- Upload what you get. Kismet netxml, WiGLE CSV, or ESP32 JSON — all three are understood, gzipped or not. Homemade rig, or a format nothing here reads? Post it straight to the API.
- Ask in the Discord if something is not working. Somebody has almost certainly hit it before.