Automatic for the people: Free Wi-Fi maps
by Mike Butcher
on March 14, 2008

Every tech startup need to now about where the free WiFi is, right? Hell, even us journalists need somewhere to post from when out and about. So here’s a quick and dirty list of places to find it in the UK and Ireland:

A map of Irish WiFi hotspots started by James Corbett at Eirepreneur.

The Londonist site has a map of free WiFi in London.

And UK startup TrustedPlaces recently put up a free wifi map of London that includes 177 locations, enabling its search results, browsing pages, and user generated lists (eg. favourites) to be KML compliant, the format that Google uses to display geographic data for Google Maps and Google Earth. This is the link TechCrunch UK users need to use if they’d like to add the results on their Google My Map.

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  • http://www.archaeogeek.com Archaeogeek

    Interesting definition of “UK”- I think this really ought to be called “London and Ireland”

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    Good point – apologies. Map suggestions welcome for whole UK!

  • Andy

    I’m not sure how up to date this is, but there’s one for Manchester here:

    http://www.communitywalk.com/map/70522

  • Dima
  • http://eirepreneur.blogs.com James Corbett

    Cheers Mike, thanks for the mention. I may have started the map but a number of people have added more hotspots to it than me and I’m delighted to see the great little community forming around it. A special thanks goes to Will King who gathered all the data on FON and BT Openzone hotspots.

  • Matt Baker

    I know its only a small addition but try http://www.norfolkopenlink.com , show the free wifi around norwich and norfolk. Norwich coverage is about 5 sq km, so loads of coverage.

  • Ben Perreau

    Bloody useful, I’ll say – was only last week I needed this. Thank you Mike.

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