[twitter-dev] Twitter Stream API - Location filtering limited to the Western Hemisphere?

2010-07-21 Thread James
I'm attempting to stream Tweets from the UK as a whole(filtering further with tracking words), using Twitters stream API, however I'm having trouble with my bounding box. The LAT/LON pairs I'm using to define a bounding box of the whoe UK(Ire included) is as follows. -9.05, 48.77, 2.19, 58.88

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Stream API - Location filtering limited to the Western Hemisphere?

2010-07-21 Thread Dave Ingram
On 07/21/10 15:13, James wrote: I'm attempting to stream Tweets from the UK as a whole(filtering further with tracking words), using Twitters stream API, however I'm having trouble with my bounding box. The LAT/LON pairs I'm using to define a bounding box of the whoe UK(Ire included) is as

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Stream API - Location filtering limited to the Western Hemisphere?

2010-07-21 Thread John Kalucki
If you need larger bounding boxes, you can request a higher access level. You can also assemble a number of smaller bounding boxes into a larger box to cover more area. So, you can divvy up your allocation into a contiguous area, or multiple discontinuous regions. If there's a bug on creating a

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Stream API - Location filtering limited to the Western Hemisphere?

2010-07-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: Given the proportion of geo-tagged tweets, perhaps we should indeed make these boxes bigger for the default access role. Any numbers you'd be willing to share? I'd hate to see you go with bigger boxes only to have to shrink them again when location