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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

You probably noticed that no web startup these days can live without a lousy Google Maps mashup of some kind or another. Somehow that even become a sign of the web 2.0. Anyway, when it comes to travel using Google maps is probably makes sense, and ArrivedOK is just the case. Take a look at the map of ArrivedOK Beta Testers flight arrivals. We didn’t do Google Maps integration yet, it’s just a screenshot, but I find it interesting and fun. We have multiple arrivals to the same airports but I didn’t put that info in, otherwise the picture would be too messy. You can view that at Google Maps website too. It’s been two weeks since the official Public Beta launch, and the list of countries from which we admit the testers is stil quite limited, yet we have our users flying, landing and getting tracked all over the globe from UK to Australia.

NB: You might notice there are still no landings in the U.S. That’s right, we wrote about that here, and we’re working on that.

Google map of ArrivedOK Beta flight arrivals -- click on the image to see the full size.