Live map
Where each ship and aircraft was last seen. Not where it is now.
The map draws when the page loads. It needs JavaScript. Every time on this site works without it.
How to read it
- Ship, filled, with an arrow along its course — live, seen in the last 10 minutes.
- Aircraft, a chevron pointing along its track.
- Grey ring — a last known position, labelled “last seen 14 min”. Nothing older than an hour is drawn at all.
- Port — a filled circle, at CalMac's own coordinates.
- Airport — a square, so it is a different shape and not just a different colour.
- Bus, est. — a hollow dashed ring, labelled “W2 · est.”. Buses are estimated from the timetable, not tracked: this is where the timetable says the bus should be, not where it is.
What this map does not do
A bus mark is never a position: no Western Isles operator publishes vehicle positions, so a bus is drawn where its own timetable puts it and nowhere else, hollow and dashed so it can never be mistaken for a tracked one. A ship's dot is where it reported from, not where it is now, and a position is never used to decide which sailing a ship is on. The lines are the seven CalMac routes drawn port to port, not the course a ship steers.