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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

Watch ArrivedOK video tutorial in English updated with female character and voice-over. Learn how ArrivedOK looks like from the inside and how to use it – in only 3 minutes.

See the press release in Russian.

See the press release in Japanese. ◎乗客の到着を自動通知　「アライブドオーケイ」

London, 20 April
Distributed by PR Newswire on behalf of arrivedok.mobi

WWW.ARRIVEDOK.MOBI flight tracker and arrival messenger selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards, gets localized for Japanese and Russian markets, available for the rest of the world now.

Austin, TX – 20 April 2009 — ArrivedOK, the personal flight arrival tracker and arrival messenger is now available in Japanese and Russian languages and open for beta testing in most countries of the world. The service lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by email, SMS, via blogs or Twitter, and enables travelers to save on international roaming charges.

Developed by Eyeline Communications Inc., ArrivedOK lets travelers enter flight information and recipient emails or phone numbers before take-off. When you reach your destination and turn on your cell phone, the service locates your cell phone in the local mobile network and automatically sends out a brief arrival message to the recipients in your list.

Along with the convenience of being able to alert at once different people with different messages, the application allows users bypassing the heavy international roaming charges for voice, text and mobile email services while traveling abroad.

The unique feature of ArrivedOK is that it notifies about one’s personal arrival instead of flight status in general. “Unlike other flight tracking services, which are based on general flight data from dispatcher centers, ArrivedOK tracks one’s actual appearance in the destination airport, so one’s friends and colleagues are 100 percent sure the person is landed okay.” – says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline Communications.

ArrivedOK has been selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards in two categories: Best Use of GPS or Location Technology and Experimental & Innovation. ArrivedOK is currently translated into Japanese, French and Russian languages and available as free Public Beta in most countries of the world.

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Watch ArrivedOK video tutorial in English. Learn how it looks like from the inside and how to use it – in only 3 minutes.