"The WorldWide WarDrive is an effort by security professionals and hobbyists to generate awareness of the need by individual users and companies to secure their [Wi-Fi] access points. The goal of the WorldWide WarDrive (or WWWD) is to provide a statistical analysis of the many access points that are currently deployed... During the Third WorldWide WarDrive, which took place in July 2003, over 88,000 unique access points were discovered worldwide. The statistics compiled for the WWWD have become the defacto standard for statistics used by many media outlets and wireless security vendors to further generate public awareness of wireless security issues.
"The Fourth WorldWide WarDrive will take place 12-19 June 2004. The WorldWide WarDrive has teamed with the Wireless Geographic Logging Engine (WiGLE) to provide real time maps and statistics as data from each area is uploaded... Coordination of drives throughout the world is done at the WorldWide WarDrive Forums... As in the past, discussions pertaining to the WWWD can also be conducted on the WarDriving mailing list... For general information about the WorldWide WarDrive visit the WorldWide WarDrive website..."
This map - greatly reduced - shows the 1.1 million wireless networks already in WiGLE's database.