Hi Stu,
If you need to use the search API for this, you'll need to tolerate the
greedy-matching on the profile location field, by discarding the results
uninteresting for your purposes (those tweets with no explicit geotagging).
Taylor
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Stu wrote:
> Hi Augusto,
> Thanks for your reply. The problem with the Streaming API is that I'd
> have to have set some database app listening to the stream for the
> past few years to be able to get all the data (especially for remote
> locations). I also don't know where my users are going to be, so I
> don't have the ability to set any bounding boxes...
>
> I need something that I can search back in time, rather than set
> listening.. without knowing in advance where the users will be. Hence
> the need for the search API...
>
> S.
>
> On Mar 21, 4:05 pm, Augusto Santos wrote:
> > Streaming API will give what you need through locations method.
> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#locations
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> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Stu
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a pre-question before my question. With the search API's
> > > geocode based search, if it falls back on the user's profile
> > > information does it use GPS positions in their profile or some
> > > location such as 'London'. The problem is that I need much greater
> > > precision than that.
> >
> > > Thus, if I perform this search:
> >
> > >http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=51.53,-0.14,1mi
> >
> > > Am I able to get results back that only contain lat/long values of the
> > > tweet? The json returned here has basically no values for 'geo'.
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > S.
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