<div dir="ltr">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...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 8:47 AM Dave Taht via LibreQoS <<a href="mailto:libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net">libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sascha Meinrath</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sascha@thexlab.org" target="_blank">sascha@thexlab.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, May 10, 2023 at 7:30 AM<br>Subject: Here's how the Broadband Fabric should be built.<br>To: National Broadband Mapping Coalition <<a href="mailto:bbcoalition@marconisociety.org" target="_blank">bbcoalition@marconisociety.org</a>><br></div><br><br>Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>
A national team of GIS experts have been collaborating on an open source, <br>
address-level, free broadband availability map -- the PA beta is now live here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://internetxplorer.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://internetxplorer.org</a><br>
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As you will quickly see, the map has information down to the address level -- <br>
and it enables easy zooming to whichever level you're interested in (unlike the <br>
FCC's map). *AND* we have also pointed out households that *should* be in the <br>
Fabric but are not (along with a bunch of highway mile markers that will need to <br>
be cleaned out -- an artifact of pulling locations from E911 databases). Most of <br>
the Turquoise dots represent challenges that should have been made -- and there <br>
are areas in North Central and SW PA where there are thousands upon thousands of <br>
households currently missing from the Fabric data.<br>
<br>
This map is freely and publicly available for non-commercial use, and it's built <br>
with open source code -- so we'd welcome both collaborators, re-use by more <br>
states, inquiries from devs who want to help, as well as your feedback (there's <br>
a handy "reach out" link at the top of the map that'll e-mail the team).<br>
<br>
The dev team is particularly keen to accelerate additional features (e.g., <br>
drawing an arbitrary polygon and having it compute # of households, # & % <br>
unserved, # & % underserved; and mash-ups with demographic data from the 2020 <br>
census [which would enable the first-ever empirical look at de facto digital <br>
redlining]).<br>
<br>
Long story short, this was pulled together by an independent team because the <br>
country and state continues to misappropriate funding for disastrously unusable <br>
broadband maps. We wanted to back up our critique by demonstrating what is <br>
possible. This particular map is purpose-built to show eligible areas for the PA <br>
Capital Project Fund RFP (coming out today), but it serves as an exemplar <br>
showing how feasible building an free and open, accessible, cheaper, and more <br>
usable map actually is.<br>
<br>
I hope folks like it.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
--Sascha<br>
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-- <br>
Sascha Meinrath<br>
Director, X-Lab<br>
Palmer Chair in Telecommunications<br>
Penn State University<br>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Podcast: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058793910227111937/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058793910227111937/</a></div><div>Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos<br></div></div></div></div>
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