The data is as of March 2014, and therefore out of date -- I'm working on updating it right now. :)
As I remember from when the data was fresh, sometimes you do get crazy hops across the Atlantic like that, though.
As I remember from when the data was fresh, sometimes you do get crazy hops across the Atlantic like that, though.
Since you're doing a traceroute anyhow, you'd be better off analyzing the transit hops, and specifically the city codes used in the reverse DNS entries.