Using the GeoTags in Twitter

I have an idea for an app or a web site or something. In theory it seems easy and I’m hoping a celever friend or two will help me figure out the detail. Essentially, it’s going to make use of this: curl http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Ausername | grep georss where you replace ‘username’ with a Twitter ID. The … Continue reading “Using the GeoTags in Twitter”

I have an idea for an app or a web site or something. In theory it seems easy and I’m hoping a celever friend or two will help me figure out the detail.

Essentially, it’s going to make use of this:
curl http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Ausername | grep georss

where you replace ‘username’ with a Twitter ID. The account has to have geotagging enabled.

You can also see geotagged Tweets using this command:

curl http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=54.66%2C-5.65%2C5km

This does much the same thing but shows you tweets specified by a particular geotag.

I’m not a programmer, not yet. But I’m going to pursue this as a demo app. The visuals I have ….uh…visualised… are kinda cool.

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