I've taken a look at this project in some detail, and it doesn't correspond with reality in many places. I have NDAed precision GIS datasets for things they're showing on their map, and they are nowhere near the actual location. In particular the submarine cable maps can be treated as logical diagrams and not physical reality.
The biggest carriers with fiber routes are NOT going to share the precision GIS datasets with a public site that will publish them for everyone to see. I have maps of hundreds of regen huts, vaults, aerial fiber splice cases and fiber routes for paths between seattle, salt lake city, denver, boise, sacramento and things throughout the western US, and they look nothing like Network Atlas' maps.
As a project it is an admirable goal, but I don't see the actual owners of the dark fiber choosing to make their data public any time soon.
The biggest carriers with fiber routes are NOT going to share the precision GIS datasets with a public site that will publish them for everyone to see. I have maps of hundreds of regen huts, vaults, aerial fiber splice cases and fiber routes for paths between seattle, salt lake city, denver, boise, sacramento and things throughout the western US, and they look nothing like Network Atlas' maps.
As a project it is an admirable goal, but I don't see the actual owners of the dark fiber choosing to make their data public any time soon.