FON access points on your GPS
Who doesn’t know what FON is? I already talked about this amazing project that tries to create a worldwide network of free Wi-fi spots, thanks to FON users sharing their bandwidth in a relationship of (free) mutual trade.
FON Maps is a Google Maps application that helps users to find the nearest FON access point, but what I can do if I’m going to move to a foreign city and I want to connect to a FON spot? I can’t use FON Maps if I’m not online, but I can’t go online if I don’t know where is the nearest FON access point!
Raúl Ochoa did something for me: FON Maps Liberator is a web mashup that uses FON Maps to export the position of access points in .GPX format, to add them to the “Point Of Interest” of our GPS.
For example, I entered the name of a street of the zone of Torino where I were planning to go this week-end, and I saved the .GPX file on my hard drive (about 30 FON spots in 5Km²); then I exported in TomTom format (.ov2) with PoiEdit, a very good (shareware) software and I put the final file into the MMC card of my Nokia 6680.
When I had to connect to the Internet with a notebook from Torino, I told to TomTom to bring me to a near FON Spot and after 10 minutes (only 5 for the nearest, but it wasn’t active 
) I was checking my e-mail, sitting in my car 
http://rau1.com/fon/maps (it seems that this service has been discontinued)
http://www.poiedit.com
March 28th, 2007
If you go to FON Maps, on the left side, you have several tabs in the “Search for Foneros” section, one being “POIs”.
In that tab, you can export all FON locations for a country in either KML, CSV, GPX or OV2 formats.