TeleGeography's submarine cable map is based on our authoritative Global Bandwidth research. The map depicts active and planned submarine cable systems, their landing stations, cable length, ready for service (RFS) date, owners, and website. Visit https://www.submarinecablemap.com.
For more background about submarine cables, read our FAQ.
Install a LTS version of Node.js, Yarn for package management, and finally Ember.
$ git clone git://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com.git
$ cd www.submarinecablemap.com
$ yarn install
$ ember serve
TeleGeography draws the cable routes and plots the landing points with Adobe Illustrator. Using Avenza's MAPublisher plug-in, which works with Illustrator, two sets of data are exported as KML files: the cable routes (as MultiLineStrings) and landing points (as Points). These KML files are then parsed to create CSV files that are transformed to GeoJSON.
This interactive map Javascript was created using the Ember web application framework using emberCLI. The Javascript for the map was written in-house at TeleGeography.
Below are links to the datasets used for the Submarine Cable Map.
Submarine Cables:
Landing Points:
Our map is made available under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).