[twitter-dev] Re: Get GEO information in an standard format?

[DomingoSL]

This is what i get using RSS, where is the element you mention?

<entry>
    <id>tag:search.twitter.com,2005:7105513237</id>
    <published>2009-12-28T00:35:07Z</published>
    <link type="text/html" href="http://twitter.com/Hannahxx18/
statuses/7105513237" rel="alternate"/>
    <title>Why Go For Dedicated Hosting? dedicated hosting .
http://bit.ly/4QANVH</title>
    <content type="html">Why Go For Dedicated Hosting? dedicated
hosting . &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/4QANVH&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/
4QANVH&lt;/a&gt;</content>
    <updated>2009-12-28T00:35:07Z</updated>
    <link type="image/png" href="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/
563477565/69_normal.jpg" rel="image"/>
    <google:location>New York</google:location>
    <twitter:geo>
    </twitter:geo>
    <twitter:source>&lt;a href=&quot;http://apiwiki.twitter.com/&quot;
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;API&lt;/a&gt;</twitter:source>
    <twitter:lang>en</twitter:lang>
    <author>
      <name>Hannahxx18 (Makayla Miller)</name>
      <uri>http://twitter.com/Hannahxx18</uri>
    </author>
  </entry>


On Dec 27, 6:59 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote:
> any tweet that is sent using the geotagging API has the "geo" element
> populated with either GeoRSS or GeoJSON.  those locations that you are
> parsing are coming from the user's profile location, which is a free form
> string.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:07 PM, DomingoSL <djsoftla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry about my English. I've recently been trying to put a map showing
> > the location of the last twitts made in my search, but when I get the
> > label <google:location>, this contains information on numerous
> > formats, including:
>
> > 1 - UT: 40.816393, -73.866493
> > 2 - New York
> > 3 - Harlem, NY
> > 4 - UT: 10.314951, -68.08583
>
> > and so ... I need to know if there is any way to obtain this
> > information in a more easy to read, for example:
>
> > <west-coor> 23.12232 </ west-coor> and so ...
>
> > I do not want to develop a complex algorithm to interpret simply data
> > as are the coordinates. Any Idea? THANKS!!
>
> --
> Raffi Krikorian
> Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi