[twitter-dev] Geotagging Bug: Anything North of London, UK is mapped to Alaska, USA :-)
I've been getting some bug reports of users of my Twitter client
Gravity since yesterday evening.
The mapping of places for coordinates North of London seems to be
buggy.
Geotagging a tweet with latitude 52.41 and longitude -1.90 (somewhere
near Birmingham, UK) claims that this is a place in Alaska, US!
{place:{place_type:admin,country_code:US,bounding_box:
{type:Polygon,coordinates:[[[-179.231086,51.175092],
[179.859681,51.175092],[179.859681,71.441059],
[-179.231086,71.441059]]]},full_name:Alaska,
US,name:Alaska,id:07179f4fe0500a32,country:The United
States of America,url:http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/
07179f4fe0500a32.json}
The coordinates in the tweet are still correct, though:
coordinates:{type:Point,coordinates:[-1.9,52.41]}
Unfortunately, the website seems to use the wrong place instead of the
correct coordinates.
ole @ mobileways.de
http://twitter.com/janole
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Re: [twitter-dev] Geotagging Bug: Anything North of London, UK is mapped to Alaska, USA :-)
Has Sarah Palin joined Twitter? :P Aral On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: I've been getting some bug reports of users of my Twitter client Gravity since yesterday evening. The mapping of places for coordinates North of London seems to be buggy. Geotagging a tweet with latitude 52.41 and longitude -1.90 (somewhere near Birmingham, UK) claims that this is a place in Alaska, US! snip To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
Re: [twitter-dev] Geotagging Bug: Anything North of London, UK is mapped to Alaska, USA :-)
On 03/30/2010 11:18 AM, Aral Balkan wrote: Has Sarah Palin joined Twitter? :P Aral On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: I've been getting some bug reports of users of my Twitter client Gravity since yesterday evening. The mapping of places for coordinates North of London seems to be buggy. Geotagging a tweet with latitude 52.41 and longitude -1.90 (somewhere near Birmingham, UK) claims that this is a place in Alaska, US! snip To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject. IIRC only USA locations are in Twitter's database. So there's definitely a bug if a geotag in the UK is being accepted as defining a place. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
Re: [twitter-dev] Geotagging Bug: Anything North of London, UK is mapped to Alaska, USA :-)
We're working on this.
David
Twitter Geo Developer
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote:
I've been getting some bug reports of users of my Twitter client
Gravity since yesterday evening.
The mapping of places for coordinates North of London seems to be
buggy.
Geotagging a tweet with latitude 52.41 and longitude -1.90 (somewhere
near Birmingham, UK) claims that this is a place in Alaska, US!
{place:{place_type:admin,country_code:US,bounding_box:
{type:Polygon,coordinates:[[[-179.231086,51.175092],
[179.859681,51.175092],[179.859681,71.441059],
[-179.231086,71.441059]]]},full_name:Alaska,
US,name:Alaska,id:07179f4fe0500a32,country:The United
States of America,url:http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/
07179f4fe0500a32.json}
The coordinates in the tweet are still correct, though:
coordinates:{type:Point,coordinates:[-1.9,52.41]}
Unfortunately, the website seems to use the wrong place instead of the
correct coordinates.
ole @ mobileways.de
http://twitter.com/janole
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Re: [twitter-dev] Geotagging Bug: Anything North of London, UK is mapped to Alaska, USA :-)
This should work now. Let us know if you see any further problems.
David
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, David Helder da...@twitter.com wrote:
We're working on this.
David
Twitter Geo Developer
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote:
I've been getting some bug reports of users of my Twitter client
Gravity since yesterday evening.
The mapping of places for coordinates North of London seems to be
buggy.
Geotagging a tweet with latitude 52.41 and longitude -1.90 (somewhere
near Birmingham, UK) claims that this is a place in Alaska, US!
{place:{place_type:admin,country_code:US,bounding_box:
{type:Polygon,coordinates:[[[-179.231086,51.175092],
[179.859681,51.175092],[179.859681,71.441059],
[-179.231086,71.441059]]]},full_name:Alaska,
US,name:Alaska,id:07179f4fe0500a32,country:The United
States of America,url:http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/
07179f4fe0500a32.json}
The coordinates in the tweet are still correct, though:
coordinates:{type:Point,coordinates:[-1.9,52.41]}
Unfortunately, the website seems to use the wrong place instead of the
correct coordinates.
ole @ mobileways.de
http://twitter.com/janole
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