APRS over LoRa is quite popular here in ON-country. Here is a map I created the beginning of June (based on some data-queries in APRS-IS )
It's the most active discussion-room on the matrix chat-server of the UBA (Belgian amateur-radio society)
Bummer, it looks like the i-Gate github page hasn't been updated in over 2 years. This seems like a promising project. it does look like the original project is more active.