Subject: Re: [Geopriv] OT: twitter geolocation details

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:49:57 -0400 (EDT)

Yes, and the actual encoding in the tweet payload is GeoRSS Simple or
GeoJSON.

Carl

> Also, I believe they are planning using the W3C Geolocation API as a
> source of geolocation information, and that API uses WGS84 as a default.
> --Richard
>
> Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
>> [OT, but i think of interest to this list]
>>
>> Twitter will soon allow posts to contain geolocation information. Some
>> information about functionality and privacy protection is here:
>>
>> http://smarterware.org/3419/details-on-twitters-imminent-geolocation-sup
>> port-launch
>>
>> The official API documentation is here:
>>
>> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0upda
>> te
>>
>> Sadly, they are not specifying which CRS the coordinates have to be in
>> ... (but since they are re-using geoRSS, my personal assumption would be
>> WGS84 - which is the default there)
>>
>> Alex
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