source for GIS-correlated fiber conduit data

Tue Jul 5 20:26:17 UTC 2005

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Sam Crooks wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me in the direction of a source for fiber cable
>>> installations correlated to GIS data?
>>
>> You will probably have difficulty in getting this from your carriers of
>> choice.  Chances are, if they provide anything at all, it would be done
>> under NDA.
>
> Didn't Sean Doran do this out of GMU about 2 years ago? and get slapped
> with some silly classification by the us-gov for it? (or am I thinking of
> another sean?)

I do recall someone pulling together data that got a lot of the homeland 
security types all riled up, but I don't recall the source.

>From past experience, the OSP route maps I've seen for $CARRIER have been 
1) done under strict NDA (we will show you the map only in our presence, 
you cannot keep it, make copies, scan it, smell it, touch it, etc) and 2) 
only for very specific cable routes that were directly relevant to my 
original request.

jms