Friday, September 25, 2009

Re: [Geopriv] OT: twitter geolocation details

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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