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 <sas...@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 <bbcoalit...@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 > > -- > 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+unsubscr...@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 > _______________________________________________ > LibreQoS mailing list > LibreQoS@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/libreqos >
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