The heading reads like a rap…

No geo service these days can live without a Google Maps mashup. Following the implementation of geotagging, we added these shareable personal maps of real time flight arrivals. ‘Real time’ means that the arrival markers appear on the map immediately when you turn your mobile after your landing – altogether with SMS, email and social network notifications. The markers bear the arrival info (where, when) and provide ‘Search nearby’ link. Red markers are past arrivals, yellow are forthcoming ones.

Click on the picture below to see how it looks like.

ArrivedOK now passes geographical coordinates of the travel destinations from its database to Twitter, so every arrival tweet is now geotagged, enabling your followers to see on a map the place where you just landed and have additional context when viewing tweets.

Though Twitter website does not display geotags yet, the growing number of third party applications does, for instance, such popular clients as Echofon, TweetDeck, Seesmic. Examples of other location-based Twitter apps are: Happn.in and Trendsmap.

Enabling geotagging in Twitter

By default the geotagging service is disabled for Twitter users. This means that you have to opt-in to sharing your location and this can only be done through the Settings page on twitter.com.

Follow these links right now to enable geotagging in Twitter:

mobile – twitter.com/account/settings/geo
desktop – twitter.com/account/settings

How it looks like

Now your ArrivedOK tweets will be geotagged and marked with an icon of some kind, depending on what Twitter app you use. Clicking the icon will open a map for you – in the app window or in your browser; some apps display Google Maps, some use Yahoo.

See below the example of Arrivedok geotagging in TweetDeck client. Happy landings!

ArrivedOK – “The Personal Flight Arrival Tracker” – automatically tracks your arrival at airports worldwide and instantly alerts your friends and family by SMS, email, via weblogs and social media – right at the moment you turn on your phone after the landing.
Visit ArrivedOK: Website | Mobile site | Facebook | Twitter

because only ArrivedOK let your family know that you finally landed.

Every major air company these days has some application that sends ‘flight alerts’ of some kind to its passengers’ cell phones. Emirates has it, Ryanair has it, so do others. What an air company basically needs to run a service like that is wiring its flight tracking system with a mobile application that sends required data to the customers: flight delays, booking confirmations, arrival alerts, etc.

In fact, anyone can integrate with Flightstats.com, write a simple app, and get those text alert pulling out via an SMS gateway. It’s not a big deal. However there’s a problem, which Flightstats is pointing at on their website:

There are problems finding reliable sources of real time
flight status data for some of the major and minor carriers…

So there’re data coming from industrial automated flight plan systems… like one of them that failed today:

FAA: System back up after causing flight delays – CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/11/19/…
The failed computer system that caused flight delays across the country has been restored, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.

But before they restored it, an air company spokesperson said: “We will be a mess all day.”

So instead of systems like that, ArrivedOK.mobi relies on particular subscriber’s mobile phone status. It really tracks one’s actual appearance in the destination airport.

Besides purely explanatory value, that post is also supposed to have B2B appeal.