Internet Infrastructure Map

Access the underlying data used to generate this map. Files are available in JSON and CSV formats.

• all_cables.json

  GeoJSON features for all submarine cables and historical radio circuits (1858–present), including route geometries and properties such as name, rfs_year (Ready for Service), decommission_year, length, owners, and landing_points.
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• radio.json

  GeoJSON features for historical transoceanic point-to-point radio trunks and omnidirectional VLF transmitter stations (1914–present), including great-circle beam paths, geodesic coverage rings, rfs_date, trunk_decomm, station_final_decomm, frequency, power, antenna_type, and tx_rx_nodes.
• cables.csv

  Tabular summary of all submarine cables (1858–present) with commission/decommission years, operational status, length, owners, and landing points.
• year-summaries.json

  Brief textual descriptions of notable events or milestones for specific years, displayed along the bottom of the map.
• meta.json

  Metadata including the minimum and maximum years covered by the visualization.