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Telegeography (cited in the article) publishes an interactive submarine cable map: https://www.submarinecablemap.com
You can even buy printed versions: https://shop.telegeography.com/collections/telecom-maps/
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher (who built the original Data Analysis team at Facebook)
https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-ham...
I wonder if this is more or less likely to make that a reality.
Amazon Web Services to set up East Coast corporate campus in Fairfax County https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/06/08/amazo...
There are a ton of players in the "ID verification" space (LexisNexus, Jumio, MiTek, KoFax). Most of them are only verifying the formatting of the ID, not the information.
I've yet to find an API based solution that can reliably verify information solely based on the picture of someones drivers license.
"But Vaughn, the arbitrator, decided that Brim's actions, although illegal and inappropriate, were not undertaken with malicious intent. Vaughn based his decision on witness statements, including those of the police officer, Tyrone Hardy, Metro officials said.
Vaughn reduced Brim's penalty to a 30-day suspension and awarded him back pay for the rest of the time. Farbstein did not know the value of back pay awarded in either case."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...
I would bet that this is directly related to Apple's 2013 acquisition Locationary -http://allthingsd.com/20130719/apple-acquires-local-data-out...
This is exactly what Dan and Grant built Locationary for, to crowdsource and manage (validation, collisions, conflicts) massive location based datasets.
Locationary's Saturn platform was worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of locations outside the US, so I'm guessing its only a matter of time before Apple opens it up.