Privacy
The same text as PRIVACY.md and Help, Privacy in the app. This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other servers; the web server keeps a standard access log (address, time, page, browser) for operating the site, and Cloudflare, which sits in front of it, processes requests under its own terms.
Route Map runs on your machine. It has no account, no telemetry and no automatic update check. Nothing is sent anywhere until you run or open a trace.
What leaves this machine
| What | To | When |
|---|---|---|
| Public router hostnames from the trace | CAIDA Hoiho, api.hoiho.caida.org | each trace, unless Hoiho is off in Settings; answers are cached locally for 30 days |
| Public hop IP addresses | RIPEstat, stat.ripe.net | each trace, unless the IP database is off |
| PTR (reverse DNS) queries for public hops with no name | your own DNS resolver | each trace, unless reverse DNS is off |
| Your public IP address, to find your city | RIPEstat, stat.ripe.net | at startup, only while no origin is set in Settings |
| Your RIPE Atlas API key, your network's AS number (or your country code if no probe is on your network), and the target | RIPE Atlas, atlas.ripe.net | only when Atlas is on in Settings with your own key and you choose Trace from a RIPE Atlas Probe. RIPE NCC publishes every measurement, target included |
| Your public IP address, to find your network's AS number for the Atlas probe | RIPEstat, stat.ripe.net | only for an Atlas trace |
| A request for the latest release tag | GitHub, api.github.com | only when you choose Check for Updates or run routemap --check-update |
Private, CGNAT and reserved addresses (your own network and your ISP's carrier NAT) are never looked up anywhere. Your origin coordinates are never sent to anyone, RIPE Atlas included: they only rank Atlas probes on your machine.
Every request to these services identifies the app in its User-Agent (routemap/<version> (+https://github.com/osintph/routemap; traceroute geolocation)), and RIPEstat requests also carry sourceapp=routemap-desktop. The project runs no server of its own that the app talks to.
When this list changes, this file and Help > Privacy change with it. Questions: [email protected].
What stays on this machine
In the config folder (macOS ~/Library/Application Support/routemap/, Windows %APPDATA%\routemap\, Linux ~/.config/routemap/):
settings.json: your settings, including the origin and your RIPE Atlas key if you entered one (readable only by your user where the OS allows).cache.sqlite3: Hoiho answers for router hostnames, andipgeo-cache.sqlite3: IP database answers for public hop addresses, each kept 30 days by default. Clear both in Settings or withroutemap cache clear.history.json: the last 50 traces, only while history is on. Clear it in Settings or the History panel.site_codes.tsv: only afterroutemap sites update.
Exports are written only to the file you choose.