[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Christian Heilmann < > chris.heilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 >> >> What do you think? > > > Hey, nicely done. I like the maps. >

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Christian Heilmann < chris.heilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 > > What do you think? Hey, nicely done. I like the maps. Are you sending the raw tweet texts to the Yahoo Placemaker service? Do

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

Hi Chris, Very nice! I'd be interested in a how-to. Jonas On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Christian Heilmann < chris.heilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 > > What do you think? I can put up a how-to if wanted. > > cheers > Chr

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

I don't think this is accurate, since it bases its decision about the location on any geographical information mentioned in the tweets. If, for instance, one of our dealers added a bunch of early hong kong phone cards (as they did), the results will be undependable. See the results for tiasdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think I'd want to make decisions about my demographics on something with that error rate either. Why not take the IPS and bounce them against whois or something? N

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Nancy M wrote: > > I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an > airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think > I'd want to make decisions about my demographics on something with > that error rate either. Why not

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

Brendan O'Connor wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Nancy M > wrote: I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think I'd want to make decisions about my dem

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

Reading this discussion reminded me of the flickr API. Might be another good way to find geo locations? Perhaps using it in combination with Placemaker could help reduce the error rate. I think with flickr you can only search for specific words, but on the other hand you can find locations for thi