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Toby c094eb88fa Open-source release: pipeline code, raw logs, derived data, licences, tests
Adds src/ (scripts, raw measurement logs, derived data, report source),
tests/, LICENSE (MIT, code) and LICENSE-DATA.md (CC BY 4.0 for the survey's
data; third-party terms). The report is updated to the current site; the
v1 and v2 data hand-off files are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-27 20:09:54 -04:00

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Data licences

Measurements and derived data: CC BY 4.0

The measurements made for this survey and the data derived from them are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), except for the third-party portions listed below. This covers:

  • src/data/ (Globalping results, Vultr and residential logs, routes, fits, network attribution);
  • cable_latency_survey_data.json, cable_latency_survey_data_v2.json;
  • cable_latency_survey_report.html and src/site/index.html.

Attribution: Cable Latency Survey (2026), https://pingstats.aethercosmology.com.

Third-party data

Source Where it appears Terms
TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map Cable routes, landing points and published lengths: cables, cable_geometry, cable_routes and the cable-route distances in the hand-off files; src/data/cables.json, src/data/network.json, the cable layer of the report. Raw files are not redistributed (src/fetch_raw.sh). © TeleGeography. Their former public data repository licensed this data under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (attribution, non-commercial, share-alike); TeleGeography now licenses the raw data commercially. Use these portions non-commercially, with attribution, and check TeleGeography's current terms before any other use.
WonderNetwork Per-pair statistics from the 2020-07-19/20 ping archive: src/data/wn_clean.json, src/data/wn_pairs_all.json, the wondernetwork records of the hand-off. The archive itself is not redistributed. © WonderNetwork; public archive at wp-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/pings/; WonderNetwork's terms apply.
RIPE Atlas (RIPE NCC) Anchor metadata (src/raw/ripe_anchors*.json), traceroute results (src/data/trace.json, src/raw/trace/). RIPE NCC terms for RIPE Atlas data. Attribution: RIPE Atlas, RIPE NCC.
RIPEstat (RIPE NCC) RPKI validation results, src/data/rpki.json. RIPE NCC terms.
Globalping (jsDelivr) Probe results in src/data/live_*.json; probe list src/raw/gp_probes.json. Globalping terms. Attribution: Globalping.
GeoNames src/raw/geonames/cities15000.txt CC BY 4.0, https://www.geonames.org
Natural Earth, via world-atlas src/raw/geo/land-110m.json Natural Earth: public domain. world-atlas: ISC.
d3 src/raw/lib/d3.min.js, embedded in the report ISC, Mike Bostock.
RouteViews / CAIDA prefix2as, RIPE NCC AS names, PeeringDB Inputs to src/asmap.py; not redistributed. Derived attribution in src/data/asmap.json. Respective terms.

The residential connection's address and location are not included anywhere in this repository.