Hey Abraham. The above example is dated. My point is appending max_result=1 onto any verified result results in a 404:
http://hurl.it/hurls/08a6b684b494cab6138754d7b7470d9895968d59/88bbdc8743d17b7f3feb78094aba93098c592240 is okay, but with max_results=1: http://hurl.it/hurls/df8773b96e453cfd5426123c3ba4354fc2d96769/6d952eaf331c0ecac3d8ec7d7fc9dc76d18e62d6 returns a 404 Thanks for the link; that's a very useful tool! On Jun 11, 11:40 am, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/db27e3e9bce56f7f9a8209b935af6a25d5fa5677/2775b26... > > 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
