Re: [twitter-dev] support for location filter of streaming api in India

2011-02-28 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Paresh, The Streaming API supports any latitude and longitude bounding boxes but relies on Tweets being geocoded. If the quantity of Tweets being returned is low it could that Twitter users in India do not geocode their Tweets, or the devices they use do not support geocoding Hope that

Re: [twitter-dev] support for location filter of streaming api in India

2011-02-28 Thread Augusto Santos
Paresh, The problem is that all geocoded tweets from India dind't have the country field filled. I use geographic database to transform Lat/Long into political boundaries information. The twitter dind't support most of countries boundaries. But if you set a bounding box at Lat/Long India area,

[twitter-dev] support for location filter of streaming api in India

2011-02-26 Thread Paresh Nakhe
Hi, I have just started using location filter in statuses/filter method. Initially i tried with the coordinates given in documentation (which were for New York) and it worked fine. I then worked out the coordinates for some area in India but i am not getting any tweets at all. I understand that