[twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-15 Thread Liz Crawford
I was reading this thread and I was wondering if anyone knew how to search within a specific geolocation and then have the coordinates (when applicable) to show up in the results. I got my program to search within a certain area, and I was able to get the coordinates when not looking in a specific

[twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread don
yes. I realise this is added by the user. What I was wondering is if there is any way to have this data passed back in the return data for a word search or weather I would need to make seperate calls for each user to access it? On Feb 12, 2:20 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: each

[twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread Eric Marcoullier @ Gnip
I apologize if this has been previously covered, but it appears that explicit geotag info is not shown for any tweet returned via the search API, regardless of whether a user has authorized public geo reporting. As a result, it is possible to determine what is being said in a specific location,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi eric. just to make sure i understand what you're saying - you're saying that the geo tag (from the geotagging API) is not showing up from search? i beg to disagree deskdog:Desktop raffi$ *curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=tomcoates* { results: [ ... {

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread Abraham Williams
Don, Twitter is intent on merging the Search and REST APIs at which point searches will return full user objects. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap#MergingRESTandSearchAPIs Abraham On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 22:10, don host.st...@gmail.com wrote: yes. I realise this is added by the user.

[twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread Eric Marcoullier @ Gnip
Raffi -- you are absolutely correct. It turns out it's a frequency thing. I've done a whole bunch of random looks at result data in the last couple of months and I've never seen one. Now that I know what to look for, I just grabbed a batch of 50,000 search results and found several. Many

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread Raffi Krikorian
nah - no worries. data is coming in and the rate at which geotags come in increases every day. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Eric Marcoullier @ Gnip e...@marcoullier.com wrote: Raffi -- you are absolutely correct. It turns out it's a frequency thing. I've done a whole bunch of random

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-12 Thread devjyoti patra
Hi, Is there an easy way to convert these geo-codes into actual locations. I'm using a lookup table which has been created by matching (geo-code) - (location specified by the user). But i was wondering if there is a Yahoo Placemaker kind of service that developers are already using for twitter.

[twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-11 Thread don
Thanks for the reply. Thats what I was thinking. Would there be any way to return the location data of user with the search results for a word? So that I didn't need to make seperate calls for each user? thanks so much for your help. On Feb 12, 3:20 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Find Location where tweet came from

2010-02-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
each user has a location field associated with it - but that is self reported. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM, don host.st...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. Thats what I was thinking. Would there be any way to return the location data of user with the search results for a word? So