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Hack4Eugene / SpeedUpAmerica

Crowd-sourced internet speed tests using M-Lab data and user tests on a website, with charts, maps, and raw data downloads.
MIT License
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Group by Census Block #77

Closed mattsayre closed 5 years ago

mattsayre commented 5 years ago

In rural geographies, zip codes boundaries and census tract boundaries can inadvertently group divergent internet availability types. This can lead to, for example, a median download speed metric that doesn't accurately reflect the on the ground truth. Smaller geographic boundaries are needed. A logical next unit of filter is a Census Block.

ryanrolds commented 5 years ago

There are a lot of Census Blocks in Oregon and Lane County, more than we can deliver to the browser quickly. We also need to get the Census Block boundaries. This will very likely require vector tilesets.

ryanrolds commented 5 years ago

Blocked until we have vector tilesets and the ability to do point-in-polygon lookups

mattsayre commented 5 years ago

Census blocks are going to be part of the on-request reporting service and not something we plan to take on with the publicly facing map at this time.