A cruise route map video, port to port.
Put the ports of your cruise in order and Sky İnk draws the route across the sea and sails it: a ship on the water, the camera following — a short vertical film for sharing.
How it works
- Pick the ports. Seaports the world over by name; a bay or an anchorage by putting the crosshair on it. Up to eight, in the order you sailed.
- Set the legs to ship. A cruise ship, a ferry or a sailboat on the water — and the flight to the first port, if there was one, as its own leg.
- Watch it sail, then send it. The camera follows the ship low over the water, north always up. Vertical for the feed, square, or wide.
What the film shows
The route keeps to the shipping lanes — round the headlands and between the islands, never a straight line across land — with the ship on it and each port named as it arrives. At the end, the whole voyage in one pull-back to the globe.
The look
Four looks for the earth: Satellite, NASA's photograph of the planet; Terrain, its relief in colour; Blueprint, the relief in two blues; and Day, a map in a day map's colours, drawn from open data. Each look has its own close-up for the start and the end of a leg; the route's colour and width are yours to set, and a look you like is kept for the next film.
Where to make it
On iPhone — the Sky İnk app, on the App Store: the film renders on the phone and is saved to Photos; nothing is uploaded. In your browser — the studio at skyink.co, on a phone or a desktop: the film renders on our server and is yours to download for a week. Building a route works without an account; keeping things — the film, a look, a favourite stop — asks you to sign in, with Apple, with Google or with an email link. There is no password.
The things people ask
- Does it know the ports? Seaports the world over, by name. A stop that is not a port is a point you put the crosshair on.
- Can I add the flight to the port? Yes. Each leg has its own means of travel; fly in, sail on, fly home.
- A ferry, a sailing trip? Choose the vessel for the leg; the film puts it on the water.
- Is it the ship's real track? It is the sea route between your ports, drawn along the lanes ships use, not a tracked position.