A pin means a node broadcast its position on a public feed — either by switching on map reporting, or in an ordinary position broadcast on a channel whose key Meshtastic publishes. A node that would rather not appear can blur its position, turn position off, or stop uplinking to the public broker, and a node that asks to be removed stays removed. Click any pin, or search for one (top left), to see who heard it.

gateway, marked G — it uplinks other nodes' traffic, not just its own; never faded by age, since it's infrastructure, not a liveness signal heard in the last hour heard in the last 6 hours heard longer ago than that for a non-gateway pin, the fainter it is, the longer since it was heard — it drops off this map after 24 hours striped — not heard in the last 90 minutes, about one missed advert dot — this node's position is exact antenna — the node blurred its own position before transmitting; the dashed circle is everywhere it could be. Almost every node does this. The compact pin (untick ☰ Bigger pins) has no room for these marks. someone heard this node this node heard them heard each other solid line = direct, 0 hops — a real radio path dashed line = relayed or hop distance unreported — not the route it took Live map: a frame arriving right now, direct — the dot moves sender to receiver lighter, dashed = relayed — same as above but not a first-hand reading blue-grey, fading = no traffic on that path for over an hour; gone at 90 minutes