Hi there, We're working on a longer guide to working with Places and Geo... in the meantime, here are the major pieces you need to know:
Finding places before creating them: * Geo/Place search: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/geo/search * Similar Places Places: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/geo/similar_places Creating Places: * Place creation: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/geo/place Guidelines: * Geo Dev guidelines: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/geo_dev_guidelines Taylor On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:10 AM, jwalton <[email protected]> wrote: > I can successfully post a Status Tweet, with a Lat/Long location. That > shows typically as the message followed by "from here" link. > > However I already have the full title and address details of the > location, and would like to be able to post that as well, so that the > message shown on Twitter would be more like "from Savoy Ballroom, > London, UK" or similar. I do not need, or want, Twitter to do the > reverse-geocoding for me! > > I am stuck as to how to do this; I believe that I need to "create" a > place_id, which I first thought was just a placename text string, but > it seems to be a unique reference id. > > I now believe that I will have to: > > 1) Request Twitter to reverse geocode the Lat/Long. > > 2) Search the returned list for a best match with my own data (title, > town etc). > > Please clarify if there is an easier way! > > (I am using Twitterizer2 as my library) > > John Walton > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
