Antun’s Blog

I just discovered a really useful new Google feature. I needed to track whether my visiting mom’s flight would be arriving on time. So I plonked the flight number into Google - just to see what would happen. A special result popped up, that linked me to a detailed flight information page on www.flightstats.com. I guess they must be partnered with Google.

The flight information page is packed with info (delay probability, etc.), but what’s really neat is the little Google map that shows you exactly where in the world your airplane is:

I’ve been working with Google Maps a lot recently, and am truly impressed with the ease-of-use, features, documentation and flexibility of the technology. It’s surprisingly easy to put together your own map, and customizing maps is straightforward, too. A really neat example of a map is the one on their home page - the callouts are very heavily customized, and it has user-configurable overlays (such as weather):

 

Now that’s a really practical site that saves me a lot of searching online for flight information (and waiting to pick people up at airports because I arrived too early).