What we record about location
Every request an agent makes reaches the platform with an approximate location for that connection, and the latest one per node is kept (city-level at best) so the fleet map can place a site you have not placed yourself. Being precise about what that is:- It is the location of the machine’s network egress. For a datacenter that is usually the building; behind a VPN, corporate tunnel, or cloud NAT it can be another country entirely.
- It is exactly why coordinates you set always outrank it, and why the two never look alike on the map.
- It is visible only to your operator, and only rolled up to the site level.
- Simulated demo nodes, and anything running off the platform, get no position at all.