Icelandic Volcano Tweets #googlemaps #volcano

The Icelandic volcanic ash cloud has caused major travel disruption across the globe. Twitter is a great tool to gauge traveler reaction and other travel conditions at airports around the world. I put together a Google Maps Mashup of tweets related to "Volcano+Ash" from Europe and North Eastern US.

The map animates through each of the latest Tweets, all you have to do is sit back and watch.

Google Map showing aircrafts avoiding UK's ash-filled skies

A volcanic eruption in Iceland is sending ash cloud over to UK which has resulted in airspace over Britain to shutdown.

At Flightradar24.com you can see in realtime on Google Maps, aircrafts clearing the British skies. After several tries I was able to access flightradar24.com, maybe because the traffic to the site which currently might be heavy. (via Techcrunch)

Launched in Sweden in 2007, Flightradar24’s network of hackers and geeks who have an ADS-B receiver has grown to over 100 ADS-B receivers. They receive the information from airplanes with ADS-B and send this information to a server, which then plots it on the map. Only airplanes within the coverage area of the 100 receivers are visible.

Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, Iceland - a view from space

GeoEye has released a one meter resolution satellite image of Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, located in southern Iceland, taken from 423 miles up in space by IKONOS Satellite. This image was taken on March 31st, 2010. The volcano erupted on March 20th, 2010 after almost 200 years (wikipedia link).