I took the screenshot and overlaid it into google earth in about 30
seconds. You loose some zoom resolution, but get the jist of it.
There's probably a fancier way with getting the underlying data, and
parsing that into a KML, but The image overlay is easy.
On 11/12/2025 5:02 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I’ve got what should be a simple project but my graphics skills and AI
skills are minimal and I can’t figure out how to do it. Or maybe it
isn’t a simple project and I should forget about it.
The Illinois BEAD provisional awards map has dots that you can make
different colors by technology, green for fiber, red for satellite,
etc. You can filter to just show one provider (awardee) if you want.
Unfortunately, the background is almost black, so even just printing a
paper copy on a color laser printer doesn’t work very well. And using
the color picker and then the eraser to replace the background with or
white or transparent doesn’t work because topographic details make the
color a slightly different shade of black so it doesn’t get replaced.
Ideally what I’d like is to overlay the fiber awards onto a regular
map of my service area, basically to know where I’m screwed in 4
years, vs. maybe not screwed. The map would need major towns and
roads for reference. An outline or fill would be fine, I don’t
actually need all the locations as dots. It would be used for
planning purposes, invest only where I’m not getting overbuilt with
fiber. I’m significantly less afraid of competing with Amazon Kuiper.
With all the hype about AI, this seems like something ChatGTP could do
for me with a couple prompts. Am I dreaming? Or too old to use AI?
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