---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sascha Meinrath Date: Wed, May 10, 2023 at 7:30 AM Subject: Here's how the Broadband Fabric should be built. To: National Broadband Mapping Coalition Hi Everyone, A national team of GIS experts have been collaborating on an open source, address-level, free broadband availability map -- the PA beta is now live here: https://internetxplorer.org *** As you will quickly see, the map has information down to the address level -- and it enables easy zooming to whichever level you're interested in (unlike the FCC's map). *AND* we have also pointed out households that *should* be in the Fabric but are not (along with a bunch of highway mile markers that will need to be cleaned out -- an artifact of pulling locations from E911 databases). Most of the Turquoise dots represent challenges that should have been made -- and there are areas in North Central and SW PA where there are thousands upon thousands of households currently missing from the Fabric data. This map is freely and publicly available for non-commercial use, and it's built with open source code -- so we'd welcome both collaborators, re-use by more states, inquiries from devs who want to help, as well as your feedback (there's a handy "reach out" link at the top of the map that'll e-mail the team). The dev team is particularly keen to accelerate additional features (e.g., drawing an arbitrary polygon and having it compute # of households, # & % unserved, # & % underserved; and mash-ups with demographic data from the 2020 census [which would enable the first-ever empirical look at de facto digital redlining]). Long story short, this was pulled together by an independent team because the country and state continues to misappropriate funding for disastrously unusable broadband maps. We wanted to back up our critique by demonstrating what is possible. This particular map is purpose-built to show eligible areas for the PA Capital Project Fund RFP (coming out today), but it serves as an exemplar showing how feasible building an free and open, accessible, cheaper, and more usable map actually is. I hope folks like it. Best, --Sascha -- Sascha Meinrath Director, X-Lab Palmer Chair in Telecommunications Penn State University -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "National Broadband Mapping Coalition" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to BBCoalition+unsubscribe@marconisociety.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/marconisociety.org/d/msgid/BBCoalition/699f0e1d-e6ae-2489-b307-5676c6f5059e%40thexlab.org . -- Podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058793910227111937/ Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos