# Fade or blink event dots with time (on Maps)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** maps\
**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474 "2020-04-23T13:33:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474/1 "2020-04-23T13:33:47Z")

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I'd like to fade the dot of events as they age or blink when they happen.

Say I have a dot representing the location of a car as it is travelling through the country and leaving a 'trace' of fading dots behind.

Or I want to 'blink' once or twice when something of important happens on the map.

Are these achievable with some Kibana trickery?

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474/2 "2020-04-23T13:53:18Z")

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You can use [data driven styling](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.6/vector-style.html#maps-vector-style-data-driven) and style `fill color` by your timestamp field. This will show older items as lighter shades and newer items as darker shapes.

You could create a [scripted field](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.6/scripted-fields.html) to return the age of each feature and use a custom color ramp to style based on age.

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**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474/3 "2020-04-23T13:54:39Z")

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Thank you, I somehow overlooked / couldn't google that part of the documentation. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474/4 "2020-04-23T13:59:27Z")

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You could also use multiple layers

- The top layer could use [top hits](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.6/maps-top-hits-aggregation.html) to show the most recent location per track. You could style this with a bright color to stand out, like red.
- The bottom layer could just be a standard documents layer and show more data styled in a lighter color to show the track trail.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fade-or-blink-event-dots-with-time-on-maps/229474/5 "2020-05-21T13:59:29Z")

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