TTN Mapper - time to shut down?

descartes
Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:20:11 +0000

md_dw1:

Do you expect someone here to draw up a business plan for this?

Er, no, as recently as the post directly before yours @jpmeijers said:

jpmeijers:

The goal of this thread is to gauge the necessity of a service like TTN Mapper.

In a slightly different version of

“I’ll offer free hosting” is not a solution

many of the well meant but off the cuff offers here are self-eliminating because by carefully reading the thread and looking in detail at GitHub and bringing up the developer tools in your browser to see what is going on and using the back of an envelope to do some basic maths, there are many answers to many questions. And once you’ve got an idea of what might be needed, if you aren’t constructing a business plan, then you are potentially doomed to repeat a similar experience or you have deep pockets.

But, and I must confess I didn’t get the point until a few days ago, the question, the only real question is “is it time to shut down TTN Mapper?”

And the context is that gateways are cheap enough that we can provide our own coverage now and so mapping is not as useful as it once was.

If it’s not time to shut it down, then why not? What do you use it for and what will it mean to you if there isn’t general access to such information?