[Air-L] gnip now offering geolocation of twitter profiles and text

[Alex Leavitt]

Very interesting. Wonder how they're dealing with the limitations.

http://dfreelon.org/2013/05/12/twitter-geolocation-and-its-limitations/
http://takhteyev.org/papers/Takhteyev-Wellman-Gruzd-2010.pdf

Alexander Leavitt
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USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, kalev leetaru <kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone, for those of you trying to map tweets in your work, I just saw
> that GNIP is now offering geographic enrichment of their Twitter stream
> that geocodes both the Location information in user profiles AND the tweet
> text itself (it separates the two) and makes this available as lat/long
> data for mapping/filtering/etc alongside the traditional sensor-based and
> software-set Exact Location and Place geographic fields.
>
> http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-geo-data-enrichment/
>
> While GNIP is using their own engine for this, you can see an overview of
> what the profile and tweet text geography of Twitter looks like in my paper
> from earlier this year:
>
> http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654
>
> Thought I would share this with the list since using GNIP's stream you can
> now essentially leave the geographic coding to them and just get an
> additional set of metadata for each tweet capturing what geographic
> information it contains, making it trivial to map tweets both by where they
> are coming from and where they are talking about...
>
>
> Kalev Leetaru
> Yahoo! Fellow in Residence
> Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
> Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
> Georgetown University
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