diff --git a/src/annotations/annotationEngine.js b/src/annotations/annotationEngine.js
index 62bbef31f..fdca91f08 100644
--- a/src/annotations/annotationEngine.js
+++ b/src/annotations/annotationEngine.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { greatCircleMeters } from '../geoDistance.js';
 import {
   holdContinuousRender,
   releaseContinuousRender,
+  governorRequestRender,
 } from '../renderGovernor.js';
 import {
   isRateLimitedOutcome,
@@ -201,8 +202,11 @@ export function createAnnotationEngine({
   // World annotations carry persistent per-frame scene animation (pulsing
   // live colors, camera-scaled rings, route-flow uniforms in the renderer),
   // so the scene must render continuously while any mark exists. (perf wave 2)
+  // Only a mark someone can see needs every frame drawn: a board of marks
+  // hidden from Draw's list lets the scene idle.
   function syncAnnotationHold() {
-    if (annotations.size > 0) holdContinuousRender('annotations');
+    const visible = [...annotations.values()].some((anno) => !anno.hidden);
+    if (visible) holdContinuousRender('annotations');
     else releaseContinuousRender('annotations');
   }
 
@@ -250,6 +254,9 @@ export function createAnnotationEngine({
       if (changed) {
         renderer.sync(annotations);
         syncAnnotationHold();
+        // The frame that takes a just-hidden mark off: with every mark hidden
+        // the hold is gone, and nothing else would draw it.
+        governorRequestRender('annotations');
       }
       if (expired) notifyChange();
       // Stop once the board is STABLE — persistent marks (persist=true is the default)
@@ -811,6 +818,11 @@ export function createAnnotationEngine({
    *  degenerate geocode stacks on one point (several Capitol monuments) would erase each other. */
   function findDuplicate(anno) {
     if (!anno.anchor) return null;
+    // A shape drawn by hand is always new: each click is meant, and every
+    // shape is unnamed until its row names it, so two nearby pins would
+    // otherwise read as one and the second would replace or vanish into the
+    // first.
+    if (anno.manual) return null;
     const near = (a, b) =>
       a &&
       b &&
@@ -1017,6 +1029,11 @@ export function createAnnotationEngine({
     anno.hidden = Boolean(hidden);
     // Skip the fade-in, so showing it again is immediate.
     anno.bornAt = Math.min(anno.bornAt, performance.now() - 260);
+    // Take it off (or put it back) now, not when its alpha next changes: a
+    // mark hidden before its first frame has no alpha change to wait for.
+    renderer.sync(annotations);
+    syncAnnotationHold();
+    governorRequestRender('annotations');
     ensureTicking();
     notifyChange();
     return true;
@@ -1043,6 +1060,7 @@ export function createAnnotationEngine({
     } catch (error) {
       rollbackRendererState(anno);
       annotations.delete(id);
+      renderer.sync(annotations);
       syncAnnotationHold();
       notifyChange();
       throw error;
diff --git a/src/annotations/annotationEngine.test.mjs b/src/annotations/annotationEngine.test.mjs
index 1f0a6958f..833c66146 100644
--- a/src/annotations/annotationEngine.test.mjs
+++ b/src/annotations/annotationEngine.test.mjs
@@ -987,3 +987,108 @@ test('a drawn line that rounds up to the next unit is labelled in it, not as 100
   assert.deepEqual(labels, ['990 m', '1.0 km', '9.9 km', '10 km']);
   engine.destroy();
 });
+
+test('hand-drawn marks: two unnamed pins close together are two pins, whatever their colours', async (t) => {
+  installAnimationFrameStubs(t);
+  _resetRenderGovernorForTest();
+  t.after(() => _resetRenderGovernorForTest());
+  const { renderer } = fakeRenderer();
+  const engine = createAnnotationEngine({ viewer: {}, renderer });
+  const pin = (lon, color) => ({ type: 'pin', manual: true, latitude: 30.27, longitude: lon, label: '', color });
+  await engine.annotate([pin(-97.74, 'primary')], { persist: true });
+  await engine.annotate([pin(-97.7402, 'primary')], { persist: true });
+  await engine.annotate([pin(-97.7404, 'red')], { persist: true });
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    engine.list().map(({ color }) => color),
+    ['primary', 'primary', 'red'],
+    'no drawn pin is dropped or replaced by the next',
+  );
+});
+
+test('hand-drawn marks: hiding a mark before its first frame takes it off at once', async (t) => {
+  installAnimationFrameStubs(t);
+  _resetRenderGovernorForTest();
+  t.after(() => _resetRenderGovernorForTest());
+  let syncs = 0;
+  const renderer = { add() {}, update() {}, remove() {}, sync() { syncs += 1; }, destroy() {} };
+  const engine = createAnnotationEngine({ viewer: {}, renderer });
+  await engine.annotate([{ type: 'pin', manual: true, latitude: 1, longitude: 1 }], { persist: true });
+  const [mark] = engine.list();
+  const before = syncs;
+  engine.setHidden(mark.id, true);
+  assert.ok(syncs > before, 'the renderer hears about it now');
+  assert.ok(
+    !getRenderGovernorDiagnostics().holds.includes('annotations'),
+    'and the render hold goes with the last visible mark',
+  );
+});
+
+test('hand-drawn marks: with every mark hidden the scene idles, and showing one wakes it', async (t) => {
+  installAnimationFrameStubs(t);
+  _resetRenderGovernorForTest();
+  t.after(() => _resetRenderGovernorForTest());
+  let renders = 0;
+  installRenderGovernor({ scene: { requestRenderMode: true, requestRender: () => (renders += 1) } });
+  const { renderer } = fakeRenderer();
+  const engine = createAnnotationEngine({ viewer: {}, renderer });
+  await engine.annotate([
+    { type: 'pin', manual: true, latitude: 1, longitude: 1 },
+    { type: 'pin', manual: true, latitude: 2, longitude: 2 },
+  ], { persist: true });
+  const [first, second] = engine.list();
+  const held = () => getRenderGovernorDiagnostics().holds.includes('annotations');
+  assert.ok(held(), 'visible marks keep the scene drawing');
+  engine.setHidden(first.id, true);
+  assert.ok(held(), 'one visible mark is enough');
+  const before = renders;
+  engine.setHidden(second.id, true);
+  assert.equal(held(), false, 'every mark hidden: the scene idles');
+  assert.ok(renders > before, 'after one last frame that takes them off');
+  engine.setHidden(second.id, false);
+  assert.ok(held(), 'showing one wakes it again');
+});
+
+test('hand-drawn marks: a restyle the renderer cannot draw takes the mark off and says so', async (t) => {
+  installAnimationFrameStubs(t);
+  _resetRenderGovernorForTest();
+  t.after(() => _resetRenderGovernorForTest());
+  const { renderer, failAddOnce } = throwingRendererHarness();
+  let syncs = 0;
+  renderer.sync = () => (syncs += 1);
+  const engine = createAnnotationEngine({ viewer: {}, renderer });
+  await engine.annotate([{ type: 'pin', manual: true, latitude: 1, longitude: 1 }], { persist: true });
+  const [mark] = engine.list();
+  let changes = 0;
+  engine.onChange(() => (changes += 1));
+  const before = syncs;
+  failAddOnce();
+  assert.throws(() => engine.restyle(mark.id, { color: 'red' }), /WebGL context lost/);
+  assert.equal(engine.list().length, 0, 'no ghost row is left behind');
+  assert.equal(changes, 1, 'the list hears about it');
+  assert.ok(syncs > before, 'and the renderer is told');
+});
+
+test('hand-drawn marks: a mark shown again right after it was drawn appears at once, not fading in', async (t) => {
+  _resetRenderGovernorForTest();
+  t.after(() => _resetRenderGovernorForTest());
+  const queued = [];
+  const raf = globalThis.requestAnimationFrame;
+  const caf = globalThis.cancelAnimationFrame;
+  globalThis.requestAnimationFrame = (callback) => queued.push(callback);
+  globalThis.cancelAnimationFrame = () => {};
+  t.after(() => {
+    globalThis.requestAnimationFrame = raf;
+    globalThis.cancelAnimationFrame = caf;
+  });
+  const tick = () => queued.splice(0).forEach((callback) => callback());
+  const { renderer } = fakeRenderer();
+  const engine = createAnnotationEngine({ viewer: {}, renderer });
+  await engine.annotate([{ type: 'pin', manual: true, latitude: 1, longitude: 1 }], { persist: true });
+  const [mark] = engine.list();
+  engine.setHidden(mark.id, true);
+  tick();
+  assert.equal(mark.alpha, 0);
+  engine.setHidden(mark.id, false);
+  tick();
+  assert.equal(mark.alpha, 1, 'no fade-in after a hide');
+});
diff --git a/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.js b/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.js
index f6c780c8f..2ae61f751 100644
--- a/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.js
+++ b/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.js
@@ -483,7 +483,9 @@ export function createScreenAnnotationRenderer(
 
     for (const rec of records.values()) {
       const { anno, group, parts } = rec;
-      if (rec.hidden) {
+      // A mark hidden from Draw's list is not projected, so it neither shows
+      // nor pushes a visible callout aside in the placement below.
+      if (rec.hidden || anno.hidden) {
         group.display = 'none';
         continue;
       }
diff --git a/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs b/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs
index 8f2431b7f..ed1bb7948 100644
--- a/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs
+++ b/src/annotations/screenAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs
@@ -390,3 +390,49 @@ test("an earlier renderer leaves a later renderer's board alone", async (t) => {
   assert.equal(groups().length, 1);
   assert.equal(groups()[0].querySelector('text').textContent, 'Kept');
 });
+
+test('a mark hidden from Draw is not drawn or placed, and comes back when shown', async (t) => {
+  // happy-dom measures every SVG box the same, so callout spreading cannot
+  // settle here; a hidden mark simply has to stay out of drawing and
+  // placement, which is what keeps it from pushing a visible callout aside.
+  const { store, svg } = board(t);
+  projectTo(t, { x: 200, y: 300 });
+  const camera = cameraOver(0, 0);
+  let project = null;
+  const renderer = createScreenAnnotationRenderer(
+    {
+      scene: sceneFor(camera, {
+        postRender: {
+          addEventListener: (listener) => (project = listener),
+          removeEventListener() {},
+        },
+      }),
+      camera,
+      trackedEntity: null,
+    },
+    { store, activeTrackedReadoutId: () => null },
+  );
+  t.after(() => renderer.destroy());
+  const camp = {
+    id: 'camp',
+    type: 'pin',
+    color: 'amber',
+    label: 'Camp',
+    alpha: 1,
+    hidden: true,
+    anchor: { lon: 0, lat: 0, height: 0 },
+  };
+  renderer.add(camp);
+  project();
+  await settle();
+  const drawn = () =>
+    [...svg().querySelectorAll('g.gev-anno')].some(
+      (group) =>
+        group.textContent.includes('Camp') && group.style.display !== 'none',
+    );
+  assert.equal(drawn(), false, 'the hidden mark is not drawn');
+  camp.hidden = false;
+  project();
+  await settle();
+  assert.equal(drawn(), true, 'shown again, it is drawn');
+});
diff --git a/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.js b/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.js
index 9e077acce..692b3d4ff 100644
--- a/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.js
+++ b/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.js
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ export function createWorldAnnotationRenderer(viewer) {
   const dataSource = new Cesium.CustomDataSource('gev-annotations');
   viewer.dataSources.add(dataSource);
   const osmAnnotations = new Set();
+  // Every mark with entities on the globe, so sync() can take a hidden one out.
+  const drawn = new Set();
 
   // Register the GevRouteFlow fabric once so Cesium's Material.fromType() can build the
   // material the route pipeline renders. The animated `time` uniform is read straight
@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ export function createWorldAnnotationRenderer(viewer) {
     // path cannot reach them and they stay on the globe forever.
     const entities = [];
     anno._entities = entities;
+    drawn.add(anno);
 
     if (
       anno.ring &&
@@ -247,6 +250,7 @@ export function createWorldAnnotationRenderer(viewer) {
             width: 9,
             material: new FlowMaterialProperty(
               PALETTE[anno.color] || PALETTE.primary,
+              () => anno.alpha ?? 1,
             ),
             clampToGround: true,
             classificationType: CLASSIFY,
@@ -320,6 +324,7 @@ export function createWorldAnnotationRenderer(viewer) {
   function remove(anno) {
     hideOsmCredit(viewer, anno);
     osmAnnotations.delete(anno);
+    drawn.delete(anno);
     if (!anno?._entities) return;
     for (const entity of anno._entities) {
       try {
@@ -331,13 +336,23 @@ export function createWorldAnnotationRenderer(viewer) {
     anno._entities = null;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * CallbackProperty drives per-frame alpha and pulse. A hidden mark is taken
+   * out whole, so no material that keeps its own colour (the route's flow),
+   * ground classification or pick can still show it.
+   */
   function sync() {
-    // No-op: CallbackProperty drives per-frame alpha/pulse animation.
+    for (const anno of drawn) {
+      const show = !anno.hidden;
+      for (const entity of anno._entities || [])
+        if (entity.show !== show) entity.show = show;
+    }
   }
 
   function destroy() {
     for (const anno of osmAnnotations) hideOsmCredit(viewer, anno);
     osmAnnotations.clear();
+    drawn.clear();
     try {
       viewer.dataSources.remove(dataSource, true);
     } catch {
@@ -407,8 +422,11 @@ export function ensureFlowFabricRegistered() {
  * returned a standalone Material Cesium never rendered, or treated `result` as a
  * Material — both left the real uniforms untouched, so nothing animated.)
  */
-export function FlowMaterialProperty(colorCss) {
+export function FlowMaterialProperty(colorCss, alphaOf = () => 1) {
   this._color = Cesium.Color.fromCssColorString(colorCss).withAlpha(0.95);
+  // The mark's live alpha (fade in and out, hidden), applied every frame.
+  this._alphaOf = alphaOf;
+  this._live = this._color.clone();
   this._definitionChanged = new Cesium.Event();
 }
 Object.defineProperties(FlowMaterialProperty.prototype, {
@@ -431,7 +449,8 @@ FlowMaterialProperty.prototype.getValue = function getValue(time, result) {
   // `time` is read straight from the wall clock so the dashes flow every rendered
   // frame (the scene renders continuously; no requestRenderMode here).
   if (!Cesium.defined(result)) result = {};
-  result.color = this._color;
+  this._live.alpha = this._color.alpha * this._alphaOf();
+  result.color = this._live;
   result.time = performance.now() / 1000; // the per-frame animated value
   result.repeat = 64.0;
   result.duty = 0.46;
diff --git a/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs b/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a05c52373
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/annotations/worldAnnotationRenderer.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+// A mark hidden from Draw's list leaves the globe whole: every entity it put
+// there is taken out on sync and comes back when shown, and the line's
+// flowing stroke, which keeps its own colour, follows the mark's alpha.
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import * as C from 'cesium';
+import {
+  FlowMaterialProperty,
+  createWorldAnnotationRenderer,
+} from './worldAnnotationRenderer.js';
+
+const noop = () => {};
+function viewer(t) {
+  for (const name of ['HTMLCanvasElement', 'HTMLImageElement', 'ImageBitmap', 'OffscreenCanvas']) {
+    const original = globalThis[name];
+    globalThis[name] = class {};
+    t.after(() => { if (original === undefined) delete globalThis[name]; else globalThis[name] = original; });
+  }
+  const before = globalThis.document;
+  globalThis.document = { addEventListener: noop, removeEventListener: noop };
+  t.after(() => { if (before === undefined) delete globalThis.document; else globalThis.document = before; });
+  return {
+    creditDisplay: { addStaticCredit: noop, removeStaticCredit: noop },
+    entities: new C.EntityCollection(),
+    dataSources: new C.DataSourceCollection(),
+    camera: { moveEnd: new C.Event(), positionCartographic: { height: 1000 } },
+    scene: { requestRender: noop, canvas: { addEventListener: noop, removeEventListener: noop }, preRender: new C.Event(),
+      primitives: { add: (p) => p, remove: noop }, screenSpaceCameraController: { enableInputs: true } },
+  };
+}
+
+const marks = () => [
+  { id: 'route', type: 'route', color: 'amber', alpha: 1, anchor: { lat: 0, lon: 0 }, path: [{ lat: 0, lon: 0 }, { lat: 0.01, lon: 0.01 }] },
+  { id: 'area', type: 'area', color: 'green', alpha: 1, anchor: { lat: 0.005, lon: 0.005 }, ring: [[0, 0], [0.01, 0], [0.01, 0.01], [0, 0]] },
+  { id: 'pin', type: 'pin', color: 'primary', alpha: 1, anchor: { lat: 0.02, lon: 0.02 } },
+];
+
+test('a hidden mark has every entity taken off on sync, and back when shown', (t) => {
+  const renderer = createWorldAnnotationRenderer(viewer(t));
+  const [route, area, pin] = marks();
+  for (const anno of [route, area, pin]) renderer.add(anno);
+  const shown = (anno) => anno._entities.map((entity) => entity.show);
+  for (const anno of [route, area, pin]) assert.ok(anno._entities.length > 0, anno.id);
+
+  route.hidden = true;
+  area.hidden = true;
+  renderer.sync();
+  assert.ok(shown(route).every((show) => show === false), 'the line is off');
+  assert.ok(shown(area).every((show) => show === false), 'the area is off');
+  assert.ok(shown(pin).every((show) => show === true), 'a visible mark stays');
+
+  route.hidden = false;
+  renderer.sync();
+  assert.ok(shown(route).every((show) => show === true), 'the line is back');
+  renderer.remove(area);
+  renderer.sync();
+  assert.equal(area._entities, null, 'a removed mark is no longer synced');
+  renderer.destroy();
+});
+
+test('the line\'s flowing stroke follows its mark\'s alpha', () => {
+  let alpha = 1;
+  const material = new FlowMaterialProperty('#ffb547', () => alpha);
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(material.getValue(null, {}).color.alpha - 0.95) < 1e-9);
+  alpha = 0;
+  assert.equal(material.getValue(null, {}).color.alpha, 0, 'hidden: nothing painted');
+  alpha = 0.5;
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(material.getValue(null, {}).color.alpha - 0.475) < 1e-9, 'fading');
+  assert.equal(new FlowMaterialProperty('#fff').getValue(null, {}).color.alpha, 0.95, 'no alpha source: opaque as before');
+});
diff --git a/src/cameraVerbs.js b/src/cameraVerbs.js
index 231d9357d..e037472cb 100644
--- a/src/cameraVerbs.js
+++ b/src/cameraVerbs.js
@@ -1746,8 +1746,13 @@ export function flyRoute(
   const speed = ROUTE_M_S[String(args.speed || 'normal').toLowerCase()]
     ? String(args.speed || 'normal').toLowerCase()
     : 'normal';
+  // A route hidden from Draw's list is not on screen, so it is not flown.
   const routes = (annoList || []).filter(
-    (a) => a.type === 'route' && Array.isArray(a.path) && a.path.length >= 2,
+    (a) =>
+      a.type === 'route' &&
+      !a.hidden &&
+      Array.isArray(a.path) &&
+      a.path.length >= 2,
   );
   if (!routes.length) {
     return {
diff --git a/src/routeCinematics.test.mjs b/src/routeCinematics.test.mjs
index fa3e9d823..622c8ab63 100644
--- a/src/routeCinematics.test.mjs
+++ b/src/routeCinematics.test.mjs
@@ -1078,3 +1078,20 @@ test('a new viewer lifetime drops the previous view-target getter', () => {
   interruptCameraMotion('test-cleanup');
   second.restore();
 });
+
+test('a route hidden from Draw is not flown; the newest visible one is', () => {
+  const viewer = createTickableViewer();
+  initCameraVerbs(viewer.viewer, () => null);
+  const route = (label, hidden) => ({
+    type: 'route',
+    label,
+    hidden,
+    path: TWO_TURN_ROUTE.map(([lon, lat]) => ({ lon, lat, height: 0 })),
+  });
+  const onlyHidden = flyRoute([route('hidden walk', true)]);
+  assert.equal(onlyHidden.ok, false, 'a board of hidden routes has none to fly');
+  const started = flyRoute([route('shown walk', false), route('hidden walk', true)]);
+  assert.equal(started.ok, true);
+  assert.match(JSON.stringify(started), /shown walk/, 'the visible route is flown');
+  interruptCameraMotion?.('test');
+});