Hey everyone, I wanted to share with the group this Javascript library which might be useful for any apps dealing with the new Places feature.
Many apps display Tweets as points on a map, based on exact latitude/ longitude coordinates. Easy. However the new Places feature allows Tweets to be approximately geo- located, within a ‘Place’ of chosen granularity, e.g. a city, or a neighborhood. This is great for users who have ‘geo-privacy’ concerns about revealing an exact latitude/longitude. But this approach presents a challenge to us developers: how can approximately-located Tweets be displayed on a map?! Moreover, we need to adopt a standard way of showing these approximately-located Tweets, to help users form a consistent understanding of the Places feature. ‘polytweet’ is my Javascript library which displays approximately- located Tweets on a Google Map. I hacked it together at Chirp last week, because I will need something like this for GeoMeme (my app, see http://www.geome.me), and also to share it with other developers and encourage a standard approach. You can see the demo at http://bit.ly/polytweetdemo which includes an added bonus demo of Hovercards On A Map. Screenshots and more details on http://hitching.net The Javascript library itself is at http://code.google.com/p/polytweet/ Let us know what you think. -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
