NZ Broadband Demand Map

More on the NZ Digital Summit. One of the presentations came from a group headed by the NZ State Services Commission, and Donald Clark of REANNZ who used their spot to launch the National Broadband Demand Aggregation tool.

NZ ProjectX
Basically its a mapping layer using the excellent local Zoomin guys from ProjectX, and it gives a New Zealand-wide view of existing broadband networks from Telecom, TelstraClear, FX Networks, as well as some of the broadband projects from the Broadband Challenge fund.

But that is just the start. The idea is that you - that's you and yours- can put your own home, business, whatever, on the map, and enteran estimate of what kind of broadband capability you need to go about your business.

The result is, as the title suggests, an aggregation tool which will guide the telcos and policy wonks on the latent broadband in the country. It's a really simple but effective idea.

My only gripe is that I would have liked to see a cultural/community/ civic society layer - i.e. not all of us are schools - or a business - or a telco - it would be great to see libraries - museum, community centers, marae, et al mapped as a common layer.

So go to it! Here.