The Constantly Moving Maps of Virginia Broadband

Virginia has made significant progress in providing high-speed connectivity to all its households and businesses over the past decade and anticipates using $1.43 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding to reach 100 percent connectivity to all addresses in the next few years. Progress and ultimate success in connecting the citizens of the Commonwealth has been due in part to a committed approach building and constantly updating a comprehensive statewide broadband map detailed down to every address. The state’s hard work in developing its own detailed maps through a partnership with Virginia Tech’s Center for Geospatial Information Technology has paid off in securing an extra $250 million in BEAD funding for 60,000 locations through the Federal Communications Commission broadband map challenge process, something Virginia Tech Center for Geospatial Information Technology director Brandon Herndon says is a constant process.