Tracemap
run and visualize traceroutes from probes around the world
Details
- External ID
- 47263850
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tracemap
- Website domain
- tracemap.dev
- Launched
- March 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I thought it would be fun to plot a traceroute on a map to visually see the path packets take. I know this idea has been done before, but I still wanted to scratch that itch.The first version just let you paste in a traceroute and it would plot the hops on a map. Later I discovered Globalping (https://globalping.io), which allows you to run traceroutes and MTRs from probes around the world, so I integrated that into the tool.From playing around with it, I noticed a few interesting things:• It's very easy to spot incorrect IP geolocation. If a hop shows 1–2 ms latency but appears to jump across continents, the geolocation is probably wrong.• Suboptimal routing is sometimes much easier to notice visually than by just looking at latency numbers.• Even with really good databases like IPinfo, IP geolocation is still not perfect, so parts of the path may occasionally be misleading.Huge credit to the teams behind Globalping and IPinfo — Globalping for the measurement infrastructure and IPinfo for the geolocation data.Feedback welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- visualize traceroutes from global probes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a frontend mapping interface that queries the existing Globalping public API to run distributed traceroutes and plots the hops using standard GeoIP lookup and Leaflet/MapLibre.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ipinfo.io
Concerns raised: Rate limiting issues behind NAT, Rate limit reached causing missing geolocation data
Competitors
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Attention rank: #92 of 110 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 127 days after the earliest competitor.
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