I'm trying to solve the problem you described here with twitterplaces.

1. You tweet about L:placename
2. You go to twitterplaces.com/username/placename and specify the
exact address (address is guessed from google local search)
3. Other apps can request twitterplaces.com/username/placename.json to
access the location address.

So, a small piece of infrastructure like bit.ly - is the plan. :)

Ben

On Jun 21, 4:27 pm, "Dean Collins" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Although it might be nice and easy to go for just L:NAME  what happens when 
> there are more than 1 café with the same name?
>
> How do I tell what country you are in?
>
> How do I tell the date/relevance to me etc.
>
> It's notlocationspecific but we've been using the term CHurl - to indicate a 
> live Chat URL. Basically we setup the following for our baseball fan site 
> (which is connected to twitter via API)
>
> http://www.livebaseballchat.com/CHurl/06-21-2009/1019/479
>
> Made up of the following constitute parts
>
> URL/ LiveBaseballChat.com     (we are going to launch 7 more so needed the 
> name included)
>
> CHurl/ Word
>
> 06/ Month
>
> 21/ Date
>
> 09/ Year
>
> 1019/ Room number
>
> 479/ Message number
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Live Chat Concepts Inc
> [email protected]
> +1-212-203-4357   New York
> +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
> +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of benn
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:07 PM
> To: Twitter Development Talk
> Subject: [twitter-dev]Tagsfor places?
>
> What's a good tag-type to use for when a user refers to places? I've been 
> using $dollartags and then indexing them - eg "off to $mojocoffee for MORE 
> BEANS". Are there any standards for these already? I've seen people using L: 
> styletags.
>
> Any other recommendations for tag semantics for places?
>
> Ben
> twitterplaces.com

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