slightly off topic: does anyone know an easy (web?) method to translate location names (ie, "Atlanta, Georgia") to geodata coords and vice versa?
thanks in advance Joseph Cheek [email protected], www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: > > hi tom. > > if there is geo data, then the "near parameter" will be using that. > if not, then it will use the location in the user's profile. > > does that help? > >> Thanks. Am I correctly understanding that the near parameter uses the >> location of the users profile and will not use the new geolocation api >> lat/long data? >> >>> It is very unlikely that we would offer a publicly available method on >>> the streaming API that returned all geotagged statuses. It is much >>> more likely that we'll offer a parameter to the /1/statuses/filter >>> method that would be subject to the same limitations as the track >>> keyword. Such a feature is unscheduled. I wouldn't guess as to when >>> we'll get to such an implementation. >>> >>> In the mean time, the Search API offers the near: parameter. >>> >>> -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki >>> Services, Twitter Inc. >>> >>>> I want to filter the firehouse to a subset of tweets that will have >>>> valid geodata (lat/long). >>> >>>>> hi tom. >>>>> what are you exactly asking? you can look at any of the timeline >>>>> methods -- >>>>> wherever there will be <status> object, there will be geo >>>>> information if >>>>> there is geo information available. >>> >>>>> does that help? >>> >>>>>> Something like statuses/geolocation that returns public statuses >>>>>> with >>>>>> geolocation data? Thanks..... > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > [email protected] | @raffi
