Relive Your Cruise with Custom Cruise Maps
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In 2024 Emma LeTeace from Emma Cruises introduced me to Matthew Jones, one of the founders of The Cruise Maps. I had seen their product a few months earlier, on board Queen Anne’s maiden voyage.
Matthew and I share a favourite ship – the QE2 – having both formed our love of maritime history and cruising thanks to that wonderful Cunarder.
The Cruise Maps story starts in 2007 when Matthew, and his mate Will, met at the University of Southampton. The pair bonded over a shared love of travel, ships and the ocean.
Will was a lifelong sailor and naval architect in training and Matthew was a Geography undergraduate with two seafaring parents, who met working on the QE2 in the 1980s.
The pair realised there was a great untapped potential of using AIS data. Fast forward to 2023, and they teamed up to create personalised print maps for cruise passengers.
By using AIS ship tracking data, The Cruise Maps has built a system that can take a passenger’s basic cruise details and create the perfect map of where the ship actually went, rather than where it planned to go!
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