Very exciting! Thanks for giving the community an early preview.

GeoRSS supports altitude and accuracy measures for point locations as
well. in GeoRSS-Simple, it's something like

<georss:point>45.256 -110.45</georss:point>
<georss:radius>500</georss:radius>
<georss:elev>313</georss:elev>

(at that lat/long, within 500 meters, at an elevation 313 meters above
the WGS84 ellipsoid).

Any plan to support that in the Twitter API? Radius is very useful for
dealing with inaccurate geolocation, and elevation (or <georss:floor>)
can help distinguish exactly where someone is.



These links may be relevant to the discussion:

W3C Geolocation API: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html
(Javascript API to location. Safari supports this nicely on the
iPhone.)

iPhone CLLocation API:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/CoreLocation/Reference/CLLocation_Class/CLLocation/CLLocation.html

Both APIs specify position as latittude, longitude, horizontal
accuracy, altitude, and vertical accuracy.

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