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Just to make it official, I recently launched 802.11maps.com a site that maps over 30,000 WiFi hot spots in the US on Google maps. Just enter your address or the address where you are going to be and it’ll show you all of the known hot spots around you. We have hot spot listings from over 17 sources and will keep adding more sites as we become aware of them. We will be adding more features to add your own spots, comment on spots, post pictures, etc.

While the creation of the database was the part of this system the took the longest, the interesting part, technically speaking, was that this was my first application built on Ruby on Rails, as well as the first site I’ve deployed on my own Linux server. So there was a lot of technical ramp-ups to get through but it was fun to figure out how to put everything together.

If you want to show some love Digg us here.