[1st-mile-nm] First in Broadband Mapping, North Carolina?s e-NC

[John Brown]

CityLink has offered to 1st-Mile the use of and to host the GIS data.
We've invested over $40K in ESRI ArcGIS (same software these folks and
most Muni's  are using) for our own internal needs.

I agree with Josmon that having visibility on the mostly static
infrastructure would be highly useful.

While some carrier data is "proprietary", it becomes available via
public domain when you put paint on the ground.

Having the knowledge of how to get reasonably priced bits to places
helps everyone.

Internally we have the DSL service areas for Qwest DSL in Santa Fe and
Albuquerque, along with rate/wire center boundries, parts of Qwest's
metro fiber network, lit buildings for (qwest, twtc, brooks, verizon),
CO locations, parts of PNM Electric and PNM Gas, some wireless
locations/direction of coverage for (SWCP, Lobo and others).

The ability to export/import to Google Earth format is available.  So
the back end could be ESRI GeoData, with export to Google Earth data
sets that the "public" could download.

Maybe there should be a NM Telcom GIS working group that meets to
collect and enter this info....

John Osmon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:46:50PM -0600, peter wrote:
>  
>> You do not map a dynamic system with a static map they are just pretty 
>> colored lines on a piece of paper
> 
> Wow -- that kinda throws the baby out with the bath water.  
> 
> It think the map has some valuable information.  It shows wire center
> boundaries and what form of DSL/ATM/FrameRelay/OCx is available.  That's
> some pretty basic information that is relatively static, so this 
> map is useful in that sense.
> 
> The dynamic portion comes in when you want to look at the servcies
> that are being provided on top of those underlying services.  In my
> mind, I *want* the underlying infrastructure to be static, so that I can
> roll any dynamic service over the top -- and trust the underlying
> layers. 
> 
> Internet consumers want a finished packet service at a reasonable
> cost per bit -- so from one perspective the DSL data is really the only
> relevant data to the map.  All the other services are tariffed at rates
> that make them unavailable to consumers directly. 
> 
> It would be *great* to see a series of maps that show availability of
> services, and an a $/Mbps contour map -- that would let you see the 
> economic impact of bringing new services to a given area...  
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