AfTerFibre African Fibre Optic Network Map
Open geodata mapping terrestrial and undersea fibre optic cable routes across Africa, digitised from operator maps into GIS format. The dataset is downloadable as CSV, SHP, KML, GeoJSON and SVG via the map portal and GitHub, and is also mirrored in the FAO data catalog. It is community-maintained by Steve Song under an open-data model.
- Category
- Datasets
- Pricing
- Free / open
- Country
- 馃實 Pan-African
- Last verified
- 5 Jul 2026
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