It cannot read your page
The map runs in its own frame. It cannot see your page's content, your forms, or anything your visitors type. Your page cannot reach into it either.
Embed guide
One line of HTML, and your vehicles are on your own website.
No plugin, no account for your web person, no change to your hosting. Paste one script tag where you want the map and it appears there.
The line
Paste this into your page where the map should appear. We give you the exact line with your own agency name already in it, so there is nothing to fill in.
<script src="https://app.milestracking.com/embed.js" data-agency="your-agency"></script>That is the whole installation. It works in any content management system that lets you paste HTML — WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Drupal, a hand-written page, or a CMS your city's IT department built years ago.
Options
All optional. Add them to the same tag as extra attributes.
| Attribute | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
data-agency | required | Your agency name, lower-case — the same one in your map URL. We give you this. |
data-height | 480 | Height of the map in pixels. Clamped to a sensible range so the map can never collapse to nothing. |
data-theme | auto | auto, light or dark. Auto follows your own page. |
data-list | on | The vehicle list beside the map. Turn it off for a narrow column. |
data-routes | on | Draw your route lines on the map. |
data-stops | on | Draw your stops on the map. |
data-target | — | The id of an element to render into. Without it the map appears where the script tag sits. |
What it does not do
No account, no cookie
A rider looking at the map does not sign in and is not given a cookie by the map. Nothing about them is stored. See the privacy policy.
It will not break your layout
The widget owns its own height and lets your page own the width, so it fits a sidebar or a full-width section without fighting your stylesheet.
It says so when a vehicle is quiet
A vehicle that has stopped reporting is not left sitting at its last position pretending to be live. The map says when it was last heard from.
If your site has a strict content security policy
Some organisations — councils and hospitals especially — run a content security policy that lists which sites may be framed. If yours does, your web person needs to add our app host to the frame-src list. That is the only change required on your side, and it is the same one-line kind of change as the script tag itself.
If the map cannot load for any reason, the space does not sit blank: it falls back to a plain link to your hosted map, so a visitor can always still get to it.
If you would rather not embed anything
You do not have to. Every agency gets a hosted map at its own address that you can link to from your website, put on a printed sign as a QR code, or send in a text message. The embed is for when you want it to live inside your own page — see the live map on your website.
Two ways to start
Fleets, deliveries, taxis, field teams
Phones you already own, the GPS you already run, or compatible hardware. A person sets you up this week, and the first 14 days are free.
StartTransit agencies and shuttles
Set up with you, with your feeds authored and a check-in call. 60 days free with a hard end date we tell you at the start.
Start a 60-day pilot