Re: [twitter-dev] Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Mark McBride : Parsing the location field is probably your best bet, but I'd say you have a challenging road ahead. It is indeed a mess, but there are geocoding solutions available to try and sort this stuff out. Be *very* careful with "geocoding solutions", especially taking note o

Re: [twitter-dev] Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
Parsing the location field is probably your best bet, but I'd say you have a challenging road ahead. It is indeed a mess, but there are geocoding solutions available to try and sort this stuff out. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM, GeorgeMedia wrote: > OK my a

[twitter-dev] Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread GeorgeMedia
OK my app basically provides a way for users to come to the site, and look at local tweets by city/state combo (I have to include state because a lot of states have identical city names). I WAS using the search API feature with geocodes to get local tweets and it worked PERFECTLY minus of course t