Sources & privacy
Community data, clearly presented.
MeshMap.live is an independent viewer of three community-maintained maps. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by their operators. Each source remains responsible for collecting and publishing its own data.
What the map shows
- MeshMap.net supplies Meshtastic position reports heard by the public MQTT server. Its documentation describes minute-by-minute updates and removal after eight hours without a position update. Positions can be deliberately approximate. Dashed links on a selected node represent its reported neighbors; they do not guarantee a current direct connection.
- MeshCore Map supplies advertised and manually added MeshCore nodes. We show the source update time where it is meaningful. Manual entries have unknown freshness. MeshCore does not provide comparable neighbor links through this feed.
- RMAP supplies discoverable Reticulum interfaces. We exclude application services and records without coordinates. Radio interfaces are selected by default; turn off that filter to include internet and overlay interfaces. RMAP documents a seven-day expiry without a new announce.
The counts are not a ranking of network size or a measurement of radio coverage. The sources have different discovery methods, reporting intervals, location precision and expiry rules. Nodes missing from a source cannot appear here. There is no inferred propagation or radio coverage model.
Refresh and storage
The selected network is checked approximately every minute while the map is visible. Switching networks loads that source when needed. The relay can cache a full source response with a 60-second freshness lifetime to reduce upstream traffic. This is temporary caching, not a node database or historical archive; CDN eviction is controlled by Cloudflare, so this is not a promise of physical deletion after exactly 60 seconds.
The displayed data stays in the browser tab’s memory. Closing the tab discards that application state. We do not save node data in cookies, local storage or IndexedDB, and we do not run a service worker. Last successfully loaded data may stay visible during an outage, with a clear stale-data notice.
The “source fetched” time records the relay’s retrieval time, not the last transmission of every node. Each node’s “last reported” field has its source-specific meaning. A refresh interval and an edge-cache lifetime can together add roughly two minutes of delay, in addition to the source’s own update interval.
Privacy and hosting
There are no analytics scripts, advertising or accounts. Map tiles are requested from OpenFreeMap. The website is hosted on GitHub Pages and source requests pass through Cloudflare Workers. These providers receive normal connection information such as IP addresses and may retain their own operational logs. “No node database” does not mean that infrastructure providers keep no logs.
Your location is requested only when you press the location button. It is used to move the map in your browser. Map tile requests reflect the area being viewed, and share links include the map coordinates. Do not share a view URL if you want its location to remain private.
Source labels and names are displayed as text. We do not display Reticulum IFAC keys, raw announce fields or operator contact addresses. If a node needs correction or removal, contact the original map operator; this site cannot change upstream records.
Map credits
Rendering by MapLibre GL JS. Basemaps by OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, using OpenStreetMap contributors’ data. Source names and marks belong to their respective owners.