but thats not a real solution.. a setting shd be introduced that allows a user to enable/disable reverse geocode for tweets...
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Chris Latko <ch...@latko.org> wrote: > > 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 <zeeom...@gmail.com> 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 <chri...@chris24.ca> 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 <zeeom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>>> No responses???- Hide quoted text - > >> > >>> - Show quoted text - > > -- > Chris Latko > www.latko.org > > > > > > > -- ----- Catch me updated on linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/zeeomar
