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Edit and personalise the map
  • How to customise the map?

    On Skipperblogs you can personalize the look of the live map. You can change the map background, the icon of your boat and many other settings. Go on the page DashboardNavigation Map (https://www.sk ......

  • How to modify your Track(s) and Waypoints?

    Skipperblogs has been designed to give you maximum freedom on your content and how to customize it. In this sense, the map editor allows you to fully edit any tracks on your map. You can add, edit, mo ......

  • Change the color and style of the trace

    You can change the color and style of the tracking trace or any other map trace. Go on DashboardNavigation Map and you will find on the left side, the list of all the traces of the map. Clic ......

  • Import a GPS track

    On Skipperblogs, you can import GPS tracks from .gpx file on your map. GPX is the abbreviation of GPS eXchange and contains longitude and latitude location data that may include waypoints, routes, and ......

  • Create an API key to display Windy Weather as the live map background

    Windy.com is an online service providing weather weather forcast maps. With Skipperblogs Premium and Pro you can embed the Windy weather map as your map backound. So your visitor can directly see t ......

  • How to change the track's name, color and style?

    As many other parts of your website, you can customize your map track(s) and change it's color and apperance. Skipperblogs offer a wide variety of map background and sometime it becomes necessary to ......

  • How to embed the live map on other website?

    Skipperblogs is a blogging platform, but if you already have one website, you probably only need the map with the marine tracking features. This is why we also offer the possibility to embed the track ......

  • How to change the departure date?

    Some map statistics are based on the departure date to calculate your achievements and you might have to change it to reflect your actual journey. This date is actually the timestamp of the very first ......