Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi anton. that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID - coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our API. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. http://www.opencellid.org/api On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi anton. that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID - coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our API. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's too expensive for me at this stage. Anton On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. http://www.opencellid.org/api On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi anton. that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID - coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our API. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's too expensive for me at this stage. Anton On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. http://www.opencellid.org/api On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi anton. that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID - coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our API. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
AFAIK they mostly target smarphones and require both cell id and wifi ssid data to do the lookup, so it's not an option for j2me-only devices. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's too expensive for me at this stage. Anton On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. http://www.opencellid.org/api On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi anton. that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID - coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our API. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
[twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton
Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid
hi anton. that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID - coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our API. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile devices that aren't equipped with GPS? My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. Regards, Anton -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
