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• 24 Jul, 2015

New Zealand National Broadband Map

The National Broadband Map allows you to enter your address and get an instant view of the different internet connection types available (or planned) in your area.

Access to high speed internet is a catalyst for making life better wherever you live. So we love that the team at NZRS have leveraged our technology as part of a handy tool that lets you quickly and easily find out what type of internet connection you’re able to get in New Zealand.

Launched yesterday by the Minister for Communications, Hon Amy Adams, the National Broadband Map allows you to enter your address and get an instant view of the different internet connection types available (or planned) in your area – including fibre, fixed line and wireless.

How it works

The tech stack behind the National Broadband Map brings to life more than 35 dataset layers from sources including Chorus and various ISPs across the country. Koordinates is used to provide a styled base map and also makes it possible to search across the various datasets containing internet access data from the various suppliers, returning a result for the chosen location.

Bumpy beginnings

The first few hours after launch saw the service inundated with demand (even Kim Kardashian would have been impressed) and required the Koordinates team to make a few tweaks to our part of the stack to get things up and running again. This huge influx of calls to the service is testament to the level of interest New Zealanders have on internet speeds.

Just the beginning

This cut of the National Broadband Map is intended for public use to easily identify what level of connection you can get to the internet in New Zealand, but there’s plenty of opportunity to go further when you start diving into the data behind the map. We’re looking forward to seeing where NZRS take this solution in future

Aligning an industry to share their data for centralised aggregation and visualisation like this requires strong leadership, so congrats to the team at NZRS.

We’d love to see more projects like the National Broadband Map that leverage geospatial and related datasets so share your ideas, or better yet, let us know if you’ve seen something already working.

As barriers to accessing high value data are removed, a new ecosystem of apps are emerging from developers who have seen the opportunity early. For more information about these new opportunities go to try.koordinates.com.

Brent NeavePosted by Brent Neave

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