Hi David, if you're interested more in geography, you might find of interest my paper on our larger fulltext geocoding infrastructure, which will be released open source through the NSF CyberGIS initiative later this year: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/leetaru/09leetaru.html ~Kalev On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:07 PM, David Pask-Hughes < adpaskhughes@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Just a note, although I feel the need to heavily mitigate this.
It is by no means the focus of your paper, of course, but you refer to "Cornwall" as a "city" in the UK. It most certainly is not a city, and there is a long history of debate surrounding its status in relation to England and the UK (some argue for some form of devolution). For some, calling Cornwall a UK city would be like calling Wales or Scotland a UK city.
Of course, I'm not suggesting this is an ideologically-motivated mistake and in no way devalues your paper, but I thought I ought to bring attention to this particular error!
Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: kalev leetaru <kalev.leetaru5@gmail.com> Sent: 23/08/2013 21:59 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] gnip now offering geolocation of twitter profiles and text
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...
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