I think it's also strange that you include Street address, Country but NO City and NO State! I think State and City/Town name would be very helpful
On Oct 12, 6:55 pm, "D. Smith" <emai...@sharedlog.com> wrote: > Great explanation, thanks. > > On Oct 12, 6:51 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > > Great question. > > > Geo means the latitude and longitude of the user as reported by the > > device they are using, was sent to us. A user can say they are at a > > place, e.g. Twitter HQ, or San Francisco, without revealing their > > exact latitude and longitude. Place support is relatively new and many > > applications have not added it yet, so instead they pass the latitude > > and longitude of the device location when Tweeting. If the latitude > > and longitude is sent we will try and derive the neighborhood (place) > > where that latitude and longitude is. > > > What this means is: > > > Just Geo: The Tweet was created with a latitude and longitude being > > passed to it. The lat/long is for a place not yet know to our database > > Geo and Place: The Tweet was created with a latitude and longitude > > being passed to it. The lat/long is known to our database and the > > neighborhood it corresponds to was set as the place. > > Just Place: The Tweet was created with a place_id being passed to it, > > but no lat/long. > > > Hope that explains the difference, > > @themattharris > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:26 PM, D. Smith <emai...@sharedlog.com> wrote: > > > Interesting. How is it that in the sample status the geo is null and > > > the place is not null? > > > How is the place determined if there is no geo data? > > > > Does this mean that status can have place object not null even when > > > the geo is null? > > > > On Oct 12, 6:13 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > >> For countries where Geo is supported twitter.com allows you to set the > > >> location you are tweeting from. The place chosen on this screen is the > > >> one entered as the place information in a Tweet. For other > > >> applications this information is set by passing the place_id parameter > > >> when Tweeting. (More > > >> info:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update) > > > >> A quick request for the status from @twitterapi includes an example of > > >> the place attribute: > > >> twurl > > >> "/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&trim_user=1&count=1" > > > >> [ > > >> { > > >> "coordinates": null, > > >> "favorited": false, > > >> "created_at": "Tue Oct 12 17:40:03 +0000 2010", > > >> "truncated": false, > > >> "text": "Snowflake is on ice for the moment so no new IDs yet. > > >> We'll post an update to the developer mailing list with more > > >> information soon.", > > >> "contributors": [ > > >> 777925 > > >> ], > > >> "annotations": null, > > >> "id": 27159735506, > > >> "retweet_count": 0, > > >> "geo": null, > > >> "retweeted": false, > > >> "in_reply_to_user_id": null, > > >> "user": { > > >> "id": 6253282 > > >> }, > > >> "source": "web", > > >> "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, > > >> "place": { > > >> "name": "Twitter HQ", > > >> "country": "The United States of America", > > >> "country_code": "US", > > >> "attributes": { > > >> "street_address": "795 Folsom St" > > >> }, > > >> "url": "http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/247f43d441defc03.json";, > > >> "id": "247f43d441defc03", > > >> "bounding_box": { > > >> "coordinates": [ > > >> [ > > >> [ > > >> -122.400612831116, > > >> 37.7821120598956 > > >> ], > > >> [ > > >> -122.400612831116, > > >> 37.7821120598956 > > >> ], > > >> [ > > >> -122.400612831116, > > >> 37.7821120598956 > > >> ], > > >> [ > > >> -122.400612831116, > > >> 37.7821120598956 > > >> ] > > >> ] > > >> ], > > >> "type": "Polygon" > > >> }, > > >> "full_name": "Twitter HQ, San Francisco", > > >> "place_type": "poi" > > >> }, > > >> "in_reply_to_status_id": null > > >> } > > >> ] > > > >> Hope that helps, > > > >> @themattharris > > >> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM, D. Smith <emai...@sharedlog.com> wrote: > > >> > I have seen this field in streaming api, but never got a chance to see > > >> > any actual data for this field. Can someone explain to me what usually > > >> > will be the the "place" when it's not null? > > > >> > -- > > >> > 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 -- 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
