Ever wondered how far the Great Wall of China would stretch it it snaked across Western Europe? Or the size of Stonehenge it it were in New York’s Central Park?
Will the sun shine on holiday this week? Great Google Map mashup will tell you
May 31, 2010 By 4 Comments
Perhaps the one element of the pre-trip service that is so important but so many travel websites struggle to get right is around weather information.
European flights now live and with amazing detail on a Google map
March 3, 2010 By 6 Comments
Another wonderful flight tracking (coffee break/time-waster) site has emerged courtesy of RadarVirtuel.
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Fare Alert 2.0: FareCompare in mashup of Google Maps and Twitter
December 7, 2009 By 12 Comments
FareCompare introduced a Twitter beta today that mashes-up Google Maps, FareCompare deal tweets from consumers’ favorite departure airports and Twitter users who are following those alerts from selected airports.
Fare alerts on social networks like Twitter and Facebook have become a hot arena as companies like FareCompare, Travelzoo, Travelocity and countless others vie for bookings and the allegiances of deal-hungry consumers.
FareCompare’s Twitter beta takes the competition to the next level by attempting to further engage consumers with a Web 2.0, community-oriented flavor.
Coffee break moment – Tracking 24 hours of flights around the world in one minute
December 3, 2009 By 3 Comments
Tnooz is a big fan of mashups and any graphical reproduction to illustrate how the airline industry operates.
The buzz and traffic around our recent coverage of the Casper mashup of Schiphol flights illustrates that readers are too.
So for this week’s fix of geekness, check out this visual representation of every flight around the world over a 24 hour period.
Live aircraft movements – the best travel mashup of all time?
November 5, 2009 By 7 Comments
Streaming photographs from another site onto a Google Map is just sooo 2008 – or at least it will be once users have seen Casper.
This mashup from a Dutch firm called Frontier takes a feed from air traffic control in Holland and plots live aircraft movements around Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Wondering how they get the data? Aircraft are tracked using a ADS-B receiver located on the roof of the Frontier office in Amsterdam!
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