Did you get written consent to provide that link? Their TOS says you have to: "8. You may not create a link to this Site from another website or document without WAIL's prior written consent."
This doesn't seem legit. The map is on public Internet, so that's like putting an ad on yellow pages and forbid anyone to call. Add authorization if you need access control.
Holy shit, that's literally the funniest thing I saw on the Internet this month.
I can imagine how such an idea could occur to someone completely non-technical, but presumably authors of the site are somewhat knowledgeable about the Internet...
There is only a screenshot of the US. The world map looks hidden in some url linked in the article. And when you try the link, it works only on flash. No thank you.
I actually did click the "Allow Flash" button, but only to find that the page hanged and I had to kill it. Quite underwhelming so you didn't lose a lot
I wonder why people get off on writing articles and hinting at the reader about the original article or PDF and then never linking it? Are they that desperate to keep people on their site just for the ads?
It's not the first internet atlas, and I'm not sure how detailed it is (cant open it because of Flash), or how accurate and what bias it may have either (I see that it is US Govt DHS funded).
Last year I helped develop The New Cloud Atlas https://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-new-cloud-at... which is essentially a custom map rendering of Internet and Telecoms infrastructure from OpenStreetMap. If you want to add more information to a map of the Internet, add it to OSM.
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Any company in transport/dark fiber business probably has something much better with their GIS tools...
I can imagine how such an idea could occur to someone completely non-technical, but presumably authors of the site are somewhat knowledgeable about the Internet...
All those pipes running through Mississippi, no real way to make use of them.
Opens the link to the article. Sees map of the U.S. only. Finds no links in the article linking to a world map either...
World Series of Internet.
The article carefully avoids providing a link to the actual site, but it is here:
http://internetatlas.org/
Last year I helped develop The New Cloud Atlas https://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-new-cloud-at... which is essentially a custom map rendering of Internet and Telecoms infrastructure from OpenStreetMap. If you want to add more information to a map of the Internet, add it to OSM.
(edits: added link to blog post explaining it)
A lot of fiber was laid along railroad right of ways. SD has both rails and freeways.
I found this to be much better