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Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by joering2 »

FL410 wrote: post #5
Kim_Bruning wrote: post #4

There's a rotating sphere at the top of the map, but part of it is black, and apparently you're not supposed to use it? It's just decoration? You scroll down to what you think is the map, but it immediately gets covered by a caption, so you scroll down more ... It turns out that downloads for the actual map are at the top of the page.

...but only after you scroll all the way to the bottom. What a horrible design.

Came here to say the same. And clicking on the globe does not stop it. Then trying to zoom and you can't but the globe image is too blurry/low res to read what's on it. Don't get me even started on scrolling...

Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by Scoundreller »

The Katittuq Nunavut Fibre Link, labelled as 2025, had its tender cancelled this year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-cancels-tender-...

> Nunavut is the only province or territory in the country [Canada] without access to fibre internet. The project would bring fibre to both Iqaluit and nearby Kimmirut.

Right now, everything is over satellite. Too bad the big "internet cache" systems don't have sneakernet approaches to filling their caches. Unsure if their local ISP does any kind of caching. So every stream/download/update, etc. is its own "hit" over the downlink.

Thanks to Canada's terrible mobile telecom pricing and lacklustre competition, a cell phone with a dataplan in this territory is cost-competitive with the rest of the country...

https://www.qiniq.com/mobile/#plans

Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by josh_frome »

dotancohen wrote: post #29
ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #2

I love these maps, and I'm glad they provide downloads like [1]. I wish the resolution was a bit higher. As it is the names of the towns on the coasts can be read with difficulty. [1] https://submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com/images/Su...

Wow, that map is very political. Israel is not mentioned by name, but the Palestinian Territories are.

Telecom Egypt is the sponsor of the map

Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by mikae1 »

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #2

I love these maps, and I'm glad they provide downloads like [1]. I wish the resolution was a bit higher. As it is the names of the towns on the coasts can be read with difficulty. [1] https://submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com/images/Su...

Too bad it's a rather shitty JPEG that's blotchy in the more uniform "white" areas. I've been able to compile a map from the png tiles for the earlier versions of this map.

It uses mapbox.js and tiles have URLs like this one: https://tiles.telegeography.com/maps/submarine-cable-map-202...

https://dezoomify-rs.ophir.dev/ is helpful.

Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by Kye »

dotancohen wrote: post #29
ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #2

I love these maps, and I'm glad they provide downloads like [1]. I wish the resolution was a bit higher. As it is the names of the towns on the coasts can be read with difficulty. [1] https://submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com/images/Su...

Wow, that map is very political. Israel is not mentioned by name, but the Palestinian Territories are.

There is no selection of labels for disputed territory that will make everyone happy. It's inherently political.

Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by mikae1 »

xkekjrktllss wrote: post #17

I have a 5k display and I can't even quite make the page wide enough to view the entire globe. How are people with regular displays supposed to view it? What a disaster of a presentation!

It's meant to be printed. https://www.submarinecablemap.com is for screen viewing.

Re: Submarine Cable Map 2023

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Post by ericra »

It's amazing how many cables there are routing through the Suez Canal, especially directly connecting Mumbai all the way through to Marseille.

I wonder how well protected they are specifically in the Suez Canal. Presumably the whole area is pretty well surveilled by the Egyptian government, but I have no clue. I just think it's really interesting how many cables are (understandably) routed this way and wonder whether there is full backup redundancy in the few cables running around south of Africa.

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