hi steve.
there are two different ways to geotag a tweet. there is geotagging with
an exact latitude and longitude, and then there is geotagging with a place.
when you geotag with an exact latitude and longitude, the coordinates (and
geo) attributes will be filled. additionally, if twitter has data for that
area of the world, we will also immediately populate the place attribute
with the contextual information. it is possible that we don't have data for
that location, at which point the place attribute will be empty.
you can also geotag with a place -- that's a neighborhood, a city, state,
point of interest, etc. when somebody does that, only the place attribute
is filled.
take a look at http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/17536619739.xml as
that has all the fields populated.
hope that helps!
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Steve 25tol...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've done a search here for this info, and looked through the docs,
but I can't find what I'm looking for documented anywhere.
What I'm after is a full sample of what data might appear in the geo/
, coordinates/ and place/ tags, when they're populated. At
present I've only seen some inner georss:point tags, but I'm curious
what else may appear within these.
I'm creating a tweet backup type thing, and pulling out various data
items from the tweet to stick into SQL and analyse, and knowing what
data might be in here would be handy.
Thanks!
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Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi
