Thanks Matt, I've entered this into the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1719
On Jul 1, 9:56 am, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > You are correct that you should be able to do this using the /geo/search > request. There is a known issue at the moment that POIs are always returned, > making it hard to find city matches. We have a fix that's being tested now > for that. If you want to file this on the issue > trackerhttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/listwe'll update it once > the > fix is deployed. > > Hope that helps, > Matt > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ryan W <rwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was working with the place search method: > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/search.json?query=Portland,%20OR&granula... > > > But, I'm only getting place results with type = poi > > > What's the preferred way to get the place id of a city? > > > I was able to get it with a lat/long: > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/reverse_geocode.json?lat=45.5234515&long... > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/search.json?lat=45.5234515&long=-122.676... > > > But, I was trying to see if I could get it with a string search. > > > Thanks! > > -- > > Matt Harris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
