On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
except SONET pairs sharing same right of way over aerial and buried plant.
In US, besides the utilities themselves which do not give out detail info, and call before you digs which might give it out, full ROW's are maintained in county or city gov engineers and deed offices. I'm not saying he didn't compile that street level of information, only that he would have had to interact with well over a thousand entities and different data sets, even down to the individual deed, to even begin to extract that information. You can get pretty powerpoints off the utilities, google maps, etc, but the raw street/land locations is a colossal amount of work. Anyone with a clue knows most longhaul lines follow/share similar/same paths... telecom, rail, power and pipe. Outside of a few target areas like downtown NYC that he may have focused on for show, I doubt it was more than overlaid national powerpoints reminiscent of JYA's eyeball series. Unless the work was recognized and then adopted into relevant and detailed access semantics...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689-2003Jul7.html
Aware of this newspeak.