Beaver County highlights upgrades to GeoHub, adds broadband tracker details

Beaver County commissioners spent part of the Feb. 11 meeting receiving updates on the county’s GeoHub mapping portal and broadband tracking tools that show progress on early-action internet projects.

A commissioner (Speaker 3) praised the county’s GeoHub and said historical markers and an "Applegate tour" now appear as clickable layers; the portal also includes a Connect Beaver Academy lookup that shows internet provider options by address. “Our GeoHub is unbelievable,” the speaker said, thanking planning staff for improvements.

Speaker 9 described recent tracker upgrades: polygons for early-action areas now include green dots to indicate completed locations and yellow dots for pending sites; where available, Verizon’s anticipated completion dates are now visible for specific locations. Speaker 9 said Comcast has applied for CPF funding and will provide location data to be posted as a separate layer when it becomes available.

Speaker 2 added that the county signed a contract with BCRC to digitize thousands of historical documents for upload to the public portal. The upgrades aim to improve transparency for residents checking broadband availability and project status; staff did not propose immediate action items in this exchange.