Fyi: the NACo angle is a Rural vs Urban, or better said, Rural vs 5G, thing. The Telcom providers are pushing the Feds to predefine the rules for 5G bypassing state and local control.
The bigger issue are still the ‘have nots’ rural communities that can’t get the connection, (think broadband capacity) from the Telcom providers. As the definition go, a single household that measures 768kbps downstream and 200kbps upstream, means the entire community, Census Track, has Broadband available to them.
Eventually NACo is looking to team with counties to collect measures from throughout the US—but this is a 2nd step.
Richard
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We’ll slate this for work in early 2019. Let’s see if Laura comes up with a contact, and let’s see what else is out there. We need a fresh angle on this subject and data.
Jim, yes, county-level broadband data will be important in 2019. I’d like to request that we develop the layer for the Living Atlas.
There appears to be a wide variety of data connected to the link below. I’m not sure what is meaningful and what is not, but I did notice there is data about housing units and households (Census 2015 Block estimates), and cartographic boundary .shp file and other statistical areas. In the end, I don’t know if we should keep to the FCC provided Census data, or substitute Esri Data.
Laura, is there a friendly GIS’er at the FCC who can school us on the available data and its intended use?
Richard
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39⁰ 7’ 38”N, 76⁰ 52’ 26”W
From: Jim Herries
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 11:29 AM
To: Richard Leadbeater RLeadbeater@esri.com
Cc: Laura McNulty LMcNulty@esri.com
Subject: Re: fcc Broadband data
Correct. If we need to add it to Living Atlas, let me know and we can get someone working on downloading the data and creating some useful maps of it.
in 2019 I’m trying to focus some support for the Rural Action Caucus of NACo. Their “Big Issue” is broadband access. I didn’t see any county-level access data within Living Atlas; am I wrong?
Richard Leadbeater
Richard M. Leadbeater, Esri, Inc.
Global Manager: State/Provincial Government Industry Solutions
and Government Trade Associations
10420 Stansfield Road Laurel, Maryland 20723
E RLeadbeater@esri.com | esri.com
T 909-793-2853, ext. 4448
C 301-332-9236
39⁰ 7’ 38”N, 76⁰ 52’ 26”W
@PolicyMapper
“Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.”
--Abraham Lincoln
Fyi: the NACo angle is a Rural vs Urban, or better said, Rural vs 5G, thing. The Telcom providers are pushing the Feds to predefine the rules for 5G bypassing state and local control.
The bigger issue are still the ‘have nots’ rural communities that can’t get the connection, (think broadband capacity) from the Telcom providers. As the definition go, a single household that measures 768kbps downstream and 200kbps upstream, means the entire community, Census Track, has Broadband available to them.
Eventually NACo is looking to team with counties to collect measures from throughout the US—but this is a 2nd step.
Richard
E RLeadbeater@esri.com | esri.com T 909-793-2853, ext. 4448 C 301-332-9236
39⁰ 7’ 38”N, 76⁰ 52’ 26”W
From: Diana Lavery Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:29 PM To: Jim Herries jherries@esri.com; Lisa Berry LBerry@esri.com; Julia Holtzclaw JHoltzclaw@esri.com; Jennifer Bell JBell@esri.com Cc: Richard Leadbeater RLeadbeater@esri.com Subject: RE: fcc Broadband data and the Living Atlas
FYI, Broadband Subscriptions are some of the fields in the new ACS computer and internet layers that are in the Living Atlas: https://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=16b3a5ac36834ed6b3f16261d9a988ea&start=1&view=list&categories=%5B%22%2FCategories%2FComputer%20and%20Internet%22%5D#content
I’ve been meaning to make a story map or two about this, because I know Broadband access is a hot topic right now.
-Diana
From: Jim Herries Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 9:24 AM To: Diana Lavery DLavery@esri.com; Lisa Berry LBerry@esri.com; Julia Holtzclaw JHoltzclaw@esri.com; Jennifer Bell JBell@esri.com Subject: FW: fcc Broadband data and the Living Atlas
We’ll slate this for work in early 2019. Let’s see if Laura comes up with a contact, and let’s see what else is out there. We need a fresh angle on this subject and data.
From: Richard Leadbeater Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 8:49 AM To: Jim Herries jherries@esri.com; Laura McNulty LMcNulty@esri.com Cc: Chris Thomas cthomas@esri.com; Shannon Valdizon SValdizon@esri.com Subject: RE: fcc Broadband data and the Living Atlas
Jim, yes, county-level broadband data will be important in 2019. I’d like to request that we develop the layer for the Living Atlas.
There appears to be a wide variety of data connected to the link below. I’m not sure what is meaningful and what is not, but I did notice there is data about housing units and households (Census 2015 Block estimates), and cartographic boundary .shp file and other statistical areas. In the end, I don’t know if we should keep to the FCC provided Census data, or substitute Esri Data.
Laura, is there a friendly GIS’er at the FCC who can school us on the available data and its intended use?
Richard
E RLeadbeater@esri.com | esri.com T 909-793-2853, ext. 4448 C 301-332-9236
39⁰ 7’ 38”N, 76⁰ 52’ 26”W
From: Jim Herries Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 11:29 AM To: Richard Leadbeater RLeadbeater@esri.com Cc: Laura McNulty LMcNulty@esri.com Subject: Re: fcc Broadband data
Correct. If we need to add it to Living Atlas, let me know and we can get someone working on downloading the data and creating some useful maps of it.
From: Richard Leadbeater RLeadbeater@esri.com Date: Monday, December 17, 2018 at 11:50 AM To: Jim Herries jherries@esri.com Cc: Laura McNulty LMcNulty@esri.com Subject: fcc Broadband data
https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/
in 2019 I’m trying to focus some support for the Rural Action Caucus of NACo. Their “Big Issue” is broadband access. I didn’t see any county-level access data within Living Atlas; am I wrong?
Richard Leadbeater
Richard M. Leadbeater, Esri, Inc. Global Manager: State/Provincial Government Industry Solutions and Government Trade Associations 10420 Stansfield Road Laurel, Maryland 20723 E RLeadbeater@esri.com | esri.com T 909-793-2853, ext. 4448 C 301-332-9236
39⁰ 7’ 38”N, 76⁰ 52’ 26”W
@PolicyMapper “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” --Abraham Lincoln