Niels Olsen

<p>Boat Position turns your WordPress site into a live tracking and logbook service for your boat.</p>
<p>The plugin is designed around the Teltonika RUTX50 router (*), a compact Linux-based 5G router with built-in GPS.<br />
A shell script on the router sends a position to your site every minute. The plugin stores each position, runs a state machine to group positions into trips and legs, and serves three public pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Live map</strong> (<code>/boat-position/map</code>) — shows the current position on an OpenStreetMap/OpenSeaMap map with a rotating arrow icon when underway and an idle indicator when stopped. Visible voyage plans are drawn as dashed green routes with flag markers.</li>
<li><strong>Logbook</strong> (<code>/boat-position/history</code>) — calendar sidebar with trip history. Click any day to see the full route on the map. Logged-in editors can label harbour names and merge incorrectly split trips.</li>
<li><strong>Voyage plans</strong> (<code>/boat-position/plans</code>) — plan future voyages as ordered lists of waypoints with optional ETAs. Multiple plans are supported; each plan can be toggled visible/hidden on the map independently.</li>
</ul>
<p>Over 150 Danish harbours are included as seed data so harbour names are detected automatically from GPS coordinates.</p>
<p>No third-party services or API keys are required beyond your own WordPress site. Maps are rendered using the free Leaflet.js library with OpenStreetMap and OpenSeaMap tiles.</p>
<p>(*) There are other alternatives to using the RTUTX50 router, any device that has access to a GPS and the internet can be configured as the source of position data.<br />
    E.g. a linux machine like Rasberry PI connected to either its own GPS or the boat NMEA data.</p>


Boat Position

Automatic sailing logbook — track your boat's live position and full route history using your onboard GPS router.

Skipperblogs

<p>Track your boat with AIS, Iridium, Garmin InReach SPOT, E-mail and embed a live map on your website with this <a href="https://www.skipperblogs.com/?source=wp" rel="nofollow ugc">Skipperblogs</a> WordPress plugin.<br />
Your position will be live updated anywhere in the world with custom messages and weather. Map statistics shows the total distance sailed, average speed etc… as well as visited countries.<br />
Perfect for a travel website to highlight your sailing achievements.</p>
<p>While the free version of Skipperblogs allows you to create a map, import GPX files, and edit your track with a powerful editor, the Premium version allow you to automatically update your position through marine trackers like AIS, Iridium etc.</p>
<p>In order to display the map your must create a free account on <a href="https://www.skipperblogs.com/register?source=wp" rel="nofollow ugc">Skipperblogs</a>. This plugin will send your MapId to fetch your navigation data from Skipperblogs and display it on your WordPress site.<br />
It uses Leaflet.js to display the navigation data on OpenStreetMap tiles layer.</p>
<h3>Adding the map</h3>
<p>Simply display the <strong>map</strong> in your content with the shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[boat-tracker]
</code></pre>
<p>The above shortcode will display a map centered on the last position of your boat.<br />
To customize the map dimension add the following attributes to the short code</p>
<pre><code>[boat-tracker width="200" width="100%"]<h3>Personalize the map</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>Log-in to your Skipperblogs’ account and open the map editor under Dashboard > Navigation > Map<br />
There you can change your boat icon, track style, map background and many more.</p>
<h3>Free version</h3>
<ul>
<li>Interactive map</li>
<li>Manual tracking</li>
<li>Customize map background and traces</li>
<li>Track editor to freely edit your trace</li>
<li>Import GPS trace from GPX files, PredictWind, Saiblogs, FollowingSea, Farkwar</li>
<li>And more</li>
</ul>
<p>Explore the full list of <a href="https://www.skipperblogs.com/features/?source=wp" rel="nofollow ugc">Skipperblogs features</a>.</p>
<h3>Premium & Pro version</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatic tracking
<ul>
<li>AIS</li>
<li>Iridium</li>
<li>Mobile App</li>
<li>Garmin InReach</li>
<li>SPOT</li>
<li>Telegram</li>
<li>Skymate</li>
<li>SSB radio</li>
<li>E-mail</li>
<li>API</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Windy Weather map</li>
<li>Custom boat icon</li>
<li>Automatic visited countries</li>
<li>And more</li>
</ul>
<p>Unlock advanced features with <a href="https://www.skipperblogs.com/pricing/?source=wp" rel="nofollow ugc">Skipperblogs Premium or Pro</a>.</p>
<h3>OUR USERS LOVE IT!</h3>
<p>We are proud to have near perfect 5/5 score on Trustpilot:</p>
<p><em>“I think it’s a great app for keeping track of your sail trips, both past, current and future. Unlike most (or rather all) apps, the map can be embedded on other websites. Also love the track details,”</em> – L.Delboca</p>
<p><em>“We are very happy with our new website and Alain has been a real star helping us build it and making modifications to suit our needs. For us, one of the main attractions is that we can send photos to the website using email – even from our very slow IridiumGo. Alain has always been very quick with responses to our requests and has given very good explanations and guidance.”</em> – Andrez Short S/V Kelper</p>
<h3>Terms of use</h3>
<p>While this plugin is distributed under GNU-GPLv2 licence, the use of skipperblogs.com services remains under the acceptance of terms of use and privacy policies:<br />
<a href="https://www.skipperblogs.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.skipperblogs.com/terms</a><br />
<a href="https://www.skipperblogs.com/terms/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.skipperblogs.com/terms/privacy</a></p>


Boat Tracker

Track your boat around the globe with Iridium, AIS, InReach, PredictWind, SPOT, Startlink, etc, and display an interactive map on your website.

Boat Position vs Boat Tracker