Show or Hide Contact and Annotation Markers

Use this when

You want to show or hide contacts and annotation markers on the GPS track map to reduce clutter or focus on one type of mark.

Before you start

Markers only appear on the map if the recording has GPS data and the markers themselves were created at pings with valid GPS coordinates. Markers without GPS coordinates are not placed on the map regardless of this setting.

Show or hide contact markers

1. Open a recording in the viewer.
2. In the left toolbar (vertical icon strip on the canvas edge), find the eye icon.
3. Click it to toggle contacts. The tooltip reads Show contacts or Hide contacts depending on the current state.
4. When contacts are visible, blue dots appear on the map at each contact's GPS position. Hover over a dot to see the contact label or classification.

Show or hide annotation markers

1. In the same left toolbar, find the label/tag icon below the eye icon.
2. Click it to toggle annotations. The tooltip reads Show annotations or Hide annotations.
3. When annotations are visible, yellow dots appear on the map at each annotation's GPS position. Hover over a dot to see the annotation type and text.

What you should see

• Contacts visible: small blue filled circles at each contact location on the map.
• Annotations visible: small yellow filled circles at each annotation location on the map.
• Hovering over any marker shows a tooltip with its label or text.
• Toggling a type off removes all dots of that type from the map immediately.

If it does not work

• No dots appear even with markers visible — the contacts or annotations in this recording were created at frames without GPS data, so they have no map coordinates. They still appear in the Contacts and Annotations lists in the sidebar.
• Dots appear in the wrong location — marker positions come from the GPS coordinate recorded at the ping where the marker was created. If the GPS fix was inaccurate at that moment, the dot reflects that inaccuracy.
• The toolbar icons are not visible — the viewer toolbar auto-hides in some view modes. Move the pointer over the canvas edge to reveal it.