1 Data information

The dataset on submarine telecom cables was created by Cogea in 2014 for the European Marine Observation and Data Network. The underlying data is property of Telegeography and is available online at https://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com. Compared with the previous version, this version of includes the gigabit per second values that come from the Cable System Database of the Packet Clearing House organization and are available online at https://prefix.pch.net/applications/cablesystem/. The database contains lines and points representing cables and related landing points. Cables are represented as stylised paths, as actual cable routes locations are not available in most cases. The dataset includes any cable that crosses the EU waters (Marine regions). Marine regions and subregions boudaries are defined in Article 4 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and available online at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/msfd-regions-and-subregions.

1.1 Metadata

Access metadata from landing page

2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: -3.68"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 48.35"
## [1] "East-Longitude: -1.22"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 49.75"

2.2 Defined area

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.

3 Telecommunication Cables (schematic routes)

3.1 Access data

The Web Feature Service (WFS) of the EMODnet Human activities portal allows collecting the data:
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.0

Available labels:

##  [1] "FID"        "id"         "name"       "owners"     "landing_po"
##  [6] "lenght_km"  "rfs"        "source"     "url_1"      "url_2"     
## [11] "capacity_g" "the_geom"   "capacity"


Download data for the defined geographical extent:

Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson

3.2 Table

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3.3 Map

3.4 Map with id

3.5 Interactive map

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