Flyertalk user “jpatokal” says he was unhappy with FlightMemory.com, so he sat down and built his own version. If you are not familiar with either site; they allow frequent fliers to log the trips they took and display their trip history on a map. It isn’t necessarily useful, or very handy, but it’s great fun and a handy way to see just how much of the world you have visited.

In the past, I played with several of these sites and settled for a desktop version instead of an online application; Flightmap runs on XP and Vista and allows me to enter my flights without the need to be online. It can also generate massive map files which I use as my desktop background.

The author of OpenFlights is looking for some feedback, so head on over to his Flyertalk thread, and help him out! In that thread, you’ll also see a rebuttal from one of the developers behind FlightMemory.com who explains that they are not the faceless corporation they are described as (I’ve spoken to them in the past, and can confirm that!).