📄️ The basics
The Map is SHIPM8's live nautical chart. It shows vessels in real time as markers, and gives you tools to search for a ship, follow your own fleet, watch…
📄️ Find a vessel
Use the Find vessels box in the map toolbar to locate a ship quickly instead of hunting for its marker.
📄️ Vessel pop-ups & actions
Click a vessel marker to open its pop-up. The pop-up shows the vessel's details and a row of quick-action buttons. You can switch between a compact and a…
📄️ Display options
The Marker options button (gear icon) opens a panel where you control how the map and its markers look. Set your preferences and click Save to keep them.
📄️ Areas & regions
The area selector at the top-right of the map lets you jump the view straight to a region or to one of your own saved areas, instead of panning and zooming…
📄️ Manage your saved areas
Your saved areas are the entries under My areas in the area selector. They let you return to a part of the map you look at often, in one click. You manage…
📄️ My fleet
My fleet lets you organise the vessels you care about into groups and reach them quickly from the map. Open it with the My fleet button in the toolbar. You…
📄️ Manage fleet groups
This page covers building and maintaining the groups shown in My fleet — creating groups, adding vessels, and tidying up.
📄️ Area activity
Area activity (the polygon icon, Activity in area) lets you watch the vessels inside specific areas — handy for keeping an eye on a port, anchorage, or…
📄️ Route calculator
The Route calculator (route icon) works out the distance and estimated arrival time between two ports at a chosen speed.