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Drawing an anonymity network onto a globe: the Interactive section, and the open-data walls we hit

Tor Relay Globe

The docs site now has an Interactive section holding three pieces, all centred on Tor. The one carrying the most data is the Tor Relay Globe, which plots nearly ten thousand running relays onto a sphere. Over sixty percent of them sit in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands.

Building it meant checking more than twenty public datasets. Six made it in. Almost nothing failed for technical reasons: the APIs mostly worked and the formats were clean. What stopped us was terms that do not allow redistribution.

Learning from TPA's ADR model

In February 2026, anarcat from the Tor system administration team (TPA) published a post titled \"Keeping track of decisions using the ADR model\".
After reading it, we felt it offered a very practical way to think about proposals, decision-making, and how to write things down so that people can actually find and understand them later.

This post is not a translation of the original article. Instead, it is our own summary and reflection on:

  • what problem TPA was trying to solve with ADRs,
  • what they actually changed in their process,
  • how other projects handle proposals and decisions, and
  • how this connects to the context we are familiar with.

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