Ah, very true - apologies I mis-understood the meaning of 'degree'. Thanks, I understand the problem now.
Seidr On Jul 21, 4:08 pm, Dave Ingram <d...@dmi.me.uk> wrote: > On 07/21/10 15:13, James wrote: > > > I'm attempting to stream Tweets from the UK as a whole(filtering > > further with tracking words), using Twitters stream API, however I'm > > having trouble with my bounding box. > > > The LAT/LON pairs I'm using to define a bounding box of the whoe > > UK(Ire included) is as follows. > > > -9.05, 48.77, 2.19, 58.88 > > > However when I try to use this with the Twitter stream API, it states > > the following error message. > > > Location track must be less than 1 degrees on a side: > > LocationTrack(48.77,-9.05,58.88,2.19) > > > I can't imagine that Twitter do not allow you a specify a bounding box > > that covers an area that crosses between the negative/positive LAT. Am > > I missing something here, or would this mean that Twitter only allow > > you to stream if you are in the Wester hemishphere, effectively? > > > If anyone has a suggest as to how I might be able to over-come this, > > I'd be very interested in hearing you out. > > Just a thought, but the error says that the bounding box must be at most > one degree on each side... and that box is about 11x10. It does seem > like a bit of a restriction, but still... > > D
