So I've spent the weekend sinking my teeth into the National Broadband Map. More to the point, I've been figuring out what the data contain, what's not there, and what can be said about the findings.
Bottom line: there's a lot to sift through.
One big lacuna: there is one (big) .txt file that list that contains all of the identified Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) in the country. And the lat/long fields are pretty much useless. So step one for mapping the CAIs is geocoding them .
But I've got a couple pics of Philly worth a second look, such as the above bandwidth map (which displays the maximum download speed aggregated to the census block level). Note: providers report that just about all of Philly has 50-100 mbps available.
Monday, February 21, 2011
NTIA Data (So Far...)
So I've spent the weekend sinking my teeth into the National Broadband Map. More to the point, I've been figuring out what the data contain, what's not there, and what can be said about the findings.
Bottom line: there's a lot to sift through.
One big lacuna: there is one (big) .txt file that list that contains all of the identified Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) in the country. And the lat/long fields are pretty much useless. So step one for mapping the CAIs is geocoding them .
But I've got a couple pics of Philly worth a second look, such as the above bandwidth map (which displays the maximum download speed aggregated to the census block level). Note: providers report that just about all of Philly has 50-100 mbps available.
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