[Geowanking] model of the internet - need data

[Sean.Gorman at fortiusone.com]

Hi Anselm

It has been a while since I did this but three are several good sources for router data. Typically we used CAIDA data (http://www.caida.org/data/overview/) specifically the router adjacency data from skitter.  CAIDA used to have an geo-ip tool but they licensed off the IP.  Could try using something like HostIP (http://www.hostip.info/dl/index.html) or MaxMind (http://www.maxmind.com/). Alternatively see if you could access to a proprietary source like Quova.  

The nice thing with the router graph is you can show connectivity as well.  On the academic side Martin Dodge did a lot of this at CASA back in the day.  He might know if anyone has done this already - now at Univ of Manchester.  Also Matt Zook at Univ of Kentucky has done lots of geo-ip work although more around domain names than routers.  

Steve Coast also did some super cool fractal visualizations of geo-ip space back in the day with Martin at UCL.  Hope some that is helpful.

best,
sean

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anselm Hook" <anselm at gmail.com>
To: geowanking at geowanking.org
Cc: "Sheldon Renan" <srenan at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:14:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Geowanking] model of the internet - need data

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a map of the Internet. A friend wants to project this
onto a spinny globe. I've found several pictoral representations but
I'm looking a raw data-set that geographically locates major routers
and servers. In an ideal world I'd get a database that indicates { ip
address, amount of traffic, longitude, latitude, connected to other ip
addresses } and then I could draw my own picture. Databases I have
seen do not include longitude and latitude which I something I would
need. Any leads?

I suppose even just given IP addresses I could guess longitude and
latitude location... which wouldn't be ideal but perhaps would be
acceptable.

Here's what I've seen so far,

   http://www.opte.org/  -> I'll try reach out to these folks since
they seem to have the best data and are nearby.

   http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18944/?a=f

   http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/

Thanks for any input!

- @anselm @wherecamp

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