On 9 February 2011 21:27, David Terranova <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Andrew,
> here's a good
> example: http://twitter.com/#!/TaimMobile/status/35349967103209472
> The guys tweeted this when they had arrived at the location, from their
> iphone (no wifi).
> They were on 51st between 6/7 avenue. The map on twitter shows 34th street.

Can't tell what the original data is, though. The coordinates which
the words "Garment District" link to are 40.750233,-73.987790, which
is Broadway and 34th Street. Are those the coordinates which their
phone sent? Does Tweetdeck do things to the coordinates? Without a
positive trail from phone to website, it's not possible to say where
the discrepancy is introduced.

The only way to tell is with a known tweet from a known location and
to compare the result with what the phone shows its position as. Even
that data doesn't tie down where any inaccuracy is -- if it isn't the
phone itself, you can't tell whether it's Tweetdeck which is getting
it wrong or Twitter.

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