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- femap/: planar best-effort solver, build, result and page (fe-map.aethercosmology.com) - satellites/: The Sync Test build, ISS elements, SatNOGS timings and page (iss.aethercosmology.com) - src/handoff/The_Shape_of_Distance_PRESENTATION.html: inputs for both - CONTRIBUTING.md; README and LICENSE-DATA cover all four sites; GitHub mirror for issues and pull requests Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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.htmlandsrc/site/index.html;femap/data/,femap/site/,satellites/data/sync.json,satellites/site/;src/handoff/The_Shape_of_Distance_PRESENTATION.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. |
| FlightAware, flightsfrom.com | Flight times in The Shape of Distance and femap/: per-direction median airborne times derived from FlightAware track logs (each linked), schedules from flightsfrom.com (each route linked). The logs themselves are not redistributed. |
© FlightAware; © flightsfrom.com; their terms apply to the underlying records. |
| CelesTrak | ISS orbital elements, satellites/data/iss_25544_20261028.tle |
CelesTrak (data from the U.S. Space Force, space-track.org); CelesTrak's terms apply. |
| SatNOGS (Libre Space Foundation) | ISS recordings and their timings in The Shape of Distance; satellites/data/satnogs_20261003.json and the values derived from them in satellites/ |
CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution: SatNOGS Network, Libre Space Foundation. |
| 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.