Quoting GeorgeMedia <georgeme...@gmail.com>:
Well I have Lon/lat data for all (not just major, all) US ans CA
cities so converting the location name to Lon/lat data is somehing I
can do in house. I can even do my own radius calculations no sweat. I
just am having trouble determining how I go about filtering out the
garbage in the location field and finding actual usable city/state
info.
Knowing how Twitter does it sure would help!
I've actually filed a defect on "How Twitter does it" ;-) "fart_robot"
from "Botland" shows up in Twitter Searches for PDX. ;-)
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1348
I've also seen people from the UK and Australia show up in PDX searches.
Well ... "Botland" sorta sounds like Portland, right? ;-)
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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