I'm not in that area, but just wanted to comment on the name being too
easily confused with everyone's most hated web browser...

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 8:47 AM Dave Taht via LibreQoS <
libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Sascha Meinrath <sascha@thexlab.org>
> Date: Wed, May 10, 2023 at 7:30 AM
> Subject: Here's how the Broadband Fabric should be built.
> To: National Broadband Mapping Coalition <bbcoalition@marconisociety.org>
>
>
> 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
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