Hi, Is there an easy way to convert these geo-codes into actual locations. I'm using a lookup table which has been created by matching (geo-code) -> (location specified by the user). But i was wondering if there is a Yahoo Placemaker kind of service that developers are already using for twitter.
Regards, Devjyoti On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > nah - no worries. data is coming in and the rate at which geotags come in > increases every day. > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Eric Marcoullier @ Gnip > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Raffi -- you are absolutely correct. It turns out it's a frequency >> thing. I've done a whole bunch of random looks at result data in the >> last couple of months and I've never seen one. Now that I know what >> to look for, I just grabbed a batch of 50,000 search results and found >> several. >> >> Many apologies for any work you had to do to drop some knowledge on >> me :) >> >> Eric >> >> On Feb 12, 9:22 am, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: >> > hi eric. >> > >> > just to make sure i understand what you're saying - you're saying that >> > the >> > geo tag (from the geotagging API) is not showing up from search? i beg >> > to >> > disagree >> > >> > deskdog:Desktop raffi$ >> > *curlhttp://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=tomcoates* >> > { >> > "results": >> > [ >> > ... >> > { >> > >> > "profile_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/523070730/twitterProfilePhoto_norm... >> > ", >> > "created_at":"Fri, >> > 12 Feb 2010 05:05:51 +0000", >> > "from_user":"vicchi", >> > "to_user_id":1292126, >> > "text":"@tomcoates You did really well today. Rest. Relax. >> > Blog. >> > Sleep. See you tomorrow.", >> > "id":8995500197, >> > "from_user_id":59842, >> > "to_user":"tomcoates", >> > *"geo":* >> > * {* >> > * "type":"Point",* >> > * "coordinates":* >> > * [* >> > * 37.2655,* >> > * -121.9648* >> > * ]* >> > * },* >> > "iso_language_code":"en", >> > "source":"<a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/"; >> > rel="nofollow">TweetDeck</a>" >> > }, >> > ... >> > "max_id":9014080861, >> > "since_id":0, >> > "refresh_url":"?since_id=9014080861&q=tomcoates", >> > "next_page":"?page=2&max_id=9014080861&q=tomcoates", >> > "results_per_page":15, >> > "page":1, >> > "completed_in":0.053853, >> > "query":"tomcoates" >> > >> > } >> > >> > seems to be working for me? >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Eric Marcoullier @ Gnip < >> > >> > >> > >> > [email protected]> wrote: >> > > I apologize if this has been previously covered, but it appears that >> > > explicit geotag info is not shown for any tweet returned via the >> > > search API, regardless of whether a user has authorized public geo >> > > reporting. >> > >> > > As a result, it is possible to determine what is being said in a >> > > specific location, but it is not possible to determine where people >> > > are talking about a specific subject. >> > >> > > I understand you not wanting to show all the signals that lead to a >> > > geo search match, but I can't grok why you're witholding specific >> > > metadata from the search results. >> > >> > > Any light you can shed would be valuable to my customers. Any plans to >> > > change this policy would be rad. >> > >> > > Thanks! >> > > Eric >> > >> > > (on my iPhone. Sorry for typeos) >> > >> > > On Feb 11, 8:20 pm, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > each user has a location field associated with it - but that is self >> > > > reported. >> > >> > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM, don <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > > Thanks for the reply. Thats what I was thinking. >> > >> > > > > Would there be any way to return the location data of user with >> > > > > the >> > > > > search results for a word? >> > >> > > > > So that I didn't need to make seperate calls for each user? >> > >> > > > > thanks so much for your help. >> > >> > > > > On Feb 12, 3:20 am, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > > > twitter only returns data back in its "geo" field if the tweet >> > > > > > has >> > > been >> > > > > > explicitly geotagged. >> > >> > > > > > search, however, attempts to use other signals to determine >> > > > > > where the >> > > > > tweet >> > > > > > is, and will attempt to return "more" tweets when you use its >> > > "search" >> > > > > > parameter. it does not, however, expose those signals in the >> > > > > > search >> > > > > > results. >> > >> > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, don <[email protected]> >> > > > > > wrote: >> > > > > > > Hi All, >> > >> > > > > > > I'm trying to determine the location where a tweet came from. >> > >> > > > > > > I know you can do a search specifying the location you want to >> > > > > > > look >> > > at >> > > > > > > and this checks againist any geo data and then against the >> > > > > > > location >> > > > > > > data. I'm guessing that twitter does a lot of error checking >> > > > > > > and >> > > > > > > transforms the location data into a geo coord on the backend >> > > > > > > when >> > > you >> > > > > > > do this search. >> > >> > > > > > > My question is: if I do a search for say a "word" and get my >> > > results >> > > > > > > back I want to be able to check where each of the returned >> > > > > > > tweets >> > > came >> > > > > > > from. Not just using the geo data that the user may have >> > > > > > > allowed >> > > but >> > > > > > > also the location data (just like the search for location >> > > > > > > based >> > > tweets >> > > > > > > does). >> > >> > > > > > > Essentially getting back a geo coord for each tweet if there >> > > > > > > is any >> > > > > > > releveant geo data or location data given by the tweeter. >> > >> > > > > > > this site would be doing something >> > > > > > > similar:http://trendsmap.com/ >> > >> > > > > > > any ideas? sorry if this is really obvious, I have searched >> > > > > > > and >> > > just >> > > > > > > can't find it. >> > >> > > > > > > thanks >> > > > > > > don >> > >> > > > > > -- >> > > > > > Raffi Krikorian >> > > > > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi >> > >> > > > -- >> > > > Raffi Krikorian >> > > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi >> > >> > -- >> > Raffi Krikorian >> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi > > > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/raffi >
