Community Matters

Many people are concerned about the government tracking their whereabouts… others (like me) have started playing with a cool little tool that does just that – and even makes it accessible to anyone who’s curious and maps it on a Google-Maps background.

Plazes uses the MAC address of the router you are connected to in order to determine your location. They have a data base of thousands of locations that they recognize, and as a user you contribute to this data base every time you get to a location that they don’t have (i.e., where they don’t recognize the MAC address of the router) which you then get to enter / describe.

There are several things you can do with this, one is the trace of my travel included here

The next one is interactive (but some versions of Firefox AdblockPlus don’t like it) – click on “show recent” ;-)

An even cuter view (with the Google Maps that I mentioned above) can be seen on their site as where is Dirk.