I've got a Streaming API collector going, collecting tweets from the Portland, Oregon area. For those wishing to do likewise, the bounding boxes are 'locations=-123.2,45.2,-122.2,45.75'. I noticed a few days ago that, even though I have Location turned on for my tweets, and they are getting tagged with my location, they weren't showing up in the Streaming collector.
I think I see what's happening now. The tweets that are showing up in the collector have the "coordinates" attribute set with a "Point" type. I think most of them are getting set by Foursquare and not something in Twitter. My tweets, though tagged in Twitter with a "place" attribute, have a null "coordinates" attribute. I'm guessing I should file this as an issue. I would think, though it's obviously a bit more work, that a "locations" filter should include all tweets tagged with a place if that place is inside the bounding boxes. I have no strong opinions on the definition of "inside", though. Should it be any part of the place, all of the place, or the centroid of the place? Maybe a quick hack would be to stuff the centroid of the "place" into the "coordinates" attribute. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős
