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.
Interesting definition of “UK”- I think this really ought to be called “London and Ireland”
Good point – apologies. Map suggestions welcome for whole UK!
I’m not sure how up to date this is, but there’s one for Manchester here:
http://www.communitywalk.com/map/70522
This is good link for TrustedPlaces KML in use – http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=http:%2F%2Ftrustedplaces.com%2Fsearch%2Fplaces%3Ftags%3Dfree%2Bwifi%26where%3Dlondon%26kml
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.
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.
Bloody useful, I’ll say – was only last week I needed this. Thank you Mike.