Hi David, We use the lat/lon sent to us when the Tweet is created. How that lat/lon is retrieved depends on the device being used to send the Tweet. The content of the Tweet is not used to populate the lat/lon coordinates.
A couple of reasons for why it could be reported like this: * The user is travelling to the location they Tweeted about * The device being used has the wrong GPS co-ordinates. (When I visited New York my iPhone struggled to get an accurate location) * They were on Wifi and the device looked up the IP and found those co-ordinates Hope that answers your question, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:19 AM, David Terranova <[email protected]>wrote: > Furthermore, here is a tweet that shows what's going on: > http://twitter.com/#!/TaimMobile/status/35349967103209472 > Tweeted from 51st Street (btw 6/7th ave), yet the map shows 34th > street. > > Obviously the map on the website shows the same incorrect data: > http://www.taimmobile.com > > Is this the iphone's tracking that is incorrect? > > > Many thanks > > > > > On Feb 9, 12:05 pm, David Terranova <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, sorry if this has been posted before in here, I can't seem to find > > anyone posting about this particular setup: > > I have a website with a google map which is retrieving the coords from > > a twitter's latest status, however the location of the google map > > rarely matches the location of where the user tweeted from, sometimes > > being half a mile off in a random direction. > > > > What is this due by? > > > > Here is the code I'm using: > > > > $twfeed = @file_get_contents('http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/ > > taimmobile.json'); > > if($json){ > > $data = json_decode($twfeed, false); > > $lat = $data->status->geo->coordinates[0]; > > $lon = $data->status->geo->coordinates[1]; > > echo "<div id='map'><h3>Where are we?</h3><BR>".SGMprintmap($lat, > > $lon,"18","TERRAIN",null,null)."</div>"; > > > > } > > > > (SGMprintmap is a function taken from a WP plug: > https://svn.wp-plugins.org/simple-google-map/trunk/simple-google-map.php) > > -- > 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
