WiGLE.net

There are thousands of entries in the WiGLE database for Free Public WiFi, these are all most certainly non-existent ghosts as purported through a Windows flaw, documented at http://www.nmrc.org/pub/advise/20060114.txt, that said, should these even appear in WiGLE or should they be removed? For that matter, should ad-hoc entries at all be considered valid? Bear with me, I am brand new to this, and have only submitted a few hundred points so far, it was finding a couple Free Public WiFi entries in those few hundred that got my attention. After driving back to the locations noted, and finding nothing, I researched and found the information at the link I provided.

a couple points: wigle is not a database of free public wifi. we list observed broadcasting network radio beacons. we do filter the dataset whenever we can isolate a specific and deterministic rule to do so. ad-hoc networks are identified as such whenever they can be reported as such by the various tools people use to post their observations to wigle.
there is a Quality of Service (QoS) metric associated with points in the database, which is described in the FAQ that can help isolate things which have been observed more frequently, and by non-single-point observers.

Thanks for the reply, sorry if it seemed I was alluding to WiGLE being a database of free wi-fi access points. I fully realize it isn't, my concern was that the SSID I found that read Free Public WiFi was in fact bogus and non-existent. Maybe a nice feature would be a way to quick filter out Ad-Hoc points on the map, similar to the checkbox for Possible FreeNet, Possible Commercial Net or First Discovered by Me.