Hey Padma, This "location" attribute is specific to geo searches (search API requests with "geocode" parameter), and reflects the way tweets are matched: - It is taking the "Geo" attribute if the tweet is geotagged. - Otherwise, it fallbacks to the tweet author's location (as defined in its profile).
By the way: If you're looking for precision, you should take a look on the Streaming API (statuses/filter method with the "locations" parameter). Only tweets created using the Geotagging API will be matched this way (no fall-backing to Twitter profile). More info on http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#locations Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM, harik <padmahar...@gmail.com> wrote: > hI ... > I am trying to map the tweets which I can retrive using Twitter > Search > API. > This is what I have observed. > When I search for tweets based on location(lat n long) using the > query: > search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=37.781157,-122.398720,1mi > I see that (in the xml format) there is <location > tag where the > latitude ,longitude or semantic address like minneapolis,MN etc are > mentioned. > But suppose I search for tweets based on a keyword ,say IPL > search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=@IPL > Then I do not see any <location> tag in the atom code.In fact I am > not > able to get any kind of location information . > I know that not may people have enabled the geolocation feature,so > the > % of tweets having the location is very less. > But What I have cross checked is,I used a map interface, and when I > click on it ,it takes the co-ordinates and gives the tweets near > by .These have the location tag.Suppose I choose a word from the > first > tweet and then search for that word as a search keyword, the I do get > the same tweet as the latest tweet ,but it does not have the location > tag. > Why is this so? > Can any one tell me > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
