You could use Yahoo GeoPlanet to try to make sense of some of that garbage:
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/ They have over 8 million place names in their woeID DB. I'm against forcing users to set a proper location. For example, I spend half my time in Tokyo and don't want to always be updating. Chris On May 25, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Sherif wrote: > > Yeah - what Chris said.. I'm trying to geo-plot location.. but because > twitter lets users enter anything for location - people enter a lot of > rubbish sometimes... Makes it a bit interesting when you are trying to > geo-plot! > > Does anyone know if there is a twitter feature request raised to force > the user to enter a proper location? or one that give me a users > location based on an IP-range.. ? Maybe we should raise one?... > > Sherif > > > On May 24, 1:34 pm, Zee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Chris, i believe you are right. Will have to somehow modify my >> application to estimate the location. >> >> On May 23, 10:03 am, Chris Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I believe locations are based solely on what the user enters in >>> for their >>> location. In other words, it could be inaccurate, left blank, or >>> the place >>> might not even exist. I'd assume that if Twitter was automatically >>> guessing >>> at where people are based on their IP, they'd have something to >>> say about >>> that in their privacy policy [1]. >> >>> 1 -http://twitter.com/privacy >> >>> -Chris Thomson >> >>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Zee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> No responses???- Hide quoted text - >> >>> - Show quoted text - -- Chris Latko www.latko.org
