The lat/long you are passing to the API are in the Yellow Sea so Twitter is 404ing as it does not have any places near there.
http://hurl.it/hurls/db27e3e9bce56f7f9a8209b935af6a25d5fa5677/2775b260053e31ce25c46a87d56ced51f8583b43 Abraham ------------- Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:28, Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt-- > > Okay thanks for the reply. I'm building a news aggregator so the goal > was to enter the location manually. Still, I'm having trouble with the > geo-coding method. I'm using Abraham's php library and I do the > following: > > $location = $connection->get('geo/reverse_geocode', array('lat' => > '37.75' , 'long' => '122.68')); > echo $connection->http_code; > > Which returns 404. $location->id is empty. Any thoughts as to what I'm > doing wrong? > > On Jun 11, 9:21 am, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Bryan, > > > > Status updates only accept lat/long or place_id. There isn't a way of > > providing plain text locations for these fields. If you wish to display a > > textual representation of where someone is on your app you would need to > > carry out a reverse geocode first. > > > > I don't know the method you are using to obtain the location but > generally > > we see developers use the lat/long returned by the browser or device. > > > > One thing that might be useful to know is that we perform a reverse > lookup > > on the lat/long when we display the tweet, converting it to some textual > > description like "SoMa, San Francisco", or "from here" as appropriate. > > > > Hope that answers your question, > > Matt > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey everyone, is there a way to geo-tweet with the API without knowing > > > the Lat/Long? In other words, can I say "San Francisco, CA" or search > > > for valid place_id's with this name? I'm trying to make my user > > > interface as user-friendly as possible, and asking for lat/long for my > > > userbase won't work. I also want to rely on as few as API's as > > > possible, so I'd prefer not to run my name through Google's Map API > > > and then through the reverse geocode API on twitters. Thanks. > > > > -- > > > > Matt Harris > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris >
