The operational map
What it’s for — the map shows where your operation actually is right now: machines, crew, your yards, and the customer sites you’re working at. It’s one live picture, built from real position sources — not a guess.
When you’d use it — checking where a machine or crew member is before you call them, watching a trailer move toward site, or getting a lay of the land for a job.
Where to find it
There are two places to open it:
- Fleet → Map — the whole fleet, every active job, on one map.
- A job’s Map tab — just that job: its assigned machines, crew, and site.
The four layers
The map is built from four layers, switched on together or individually:
- Machines — position comes from a crew member’s phone while they’re checked in on an active job, or from a registered GPS tracker device fitted to the machine.
- Crew — shown while they’re checked in on an active job.
- Yards — your own bases.
- Customer sites — the site address for each active job.
Honest positions, not guesses
Craneye only ever shows a position when there’s a real, recent source for it — a phone on an active job, a tracker device, or an operator’s explicit “leaving yard” update. If a machine has no current source, it isn’t plotted with a made-up location: it’s listed instead, clearly marked as unknown, so you’re never misled by a stale or invented pin.
Trailer routes
A trailer on an active route trip draws its route line live on the map, updating roughly every 30 seconds as it moves. The map shows the trip in progress; the full point-by-point replay of the trip — including stops — lives on the job’s Route tab.
Crane transit
For a crane travelling to site, an operator taps Leaving yard in the Craneye app when they set off. The crane then shows as in transit to the job’s site on the map until the operator taps Arrived.
Crew location and privacy
Crew location is only ever captured while a crew member is checked in and has an active assigned job — never off shift, never in the background otherwise. This is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the app, so there’s no way to see a crew member’s position outside those conditions.
Common questions
- Why does a machine show as “unknown location” instead of somewhere on the map? Because Craneye has no recent real source for it — no phone on an active job and no tracker device reporting. It’s listed rather than plotted anywhere, so you’re never shown a guess.
- Can I see where a trailer has been, not just where it is now? Yes — the map shows the live route line while the trip is running; for the full replay with stops, open the job’s Route tab.
- Does the map show crew when they’re off shift? No. Crew location only appears while they’re checked in and on an active assigned job.