Twitter API places about public-information-map-template-js HOT 6 CLOSED

cc @kellyhutchins I'll update my twitter code to support places.

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@driskull cool. Let me know when you are done and I'll update my twitter template.

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It seems as if all the place data is polygon data. Most of them are cities and states. I did see some POI places. However, they are still polygons even though they have the same bounding box location. It seems like they should be points?

I'm not sure we want to place polygons for tweets. We could just get the center of the polygon but not sure how useful that is if the place is just "California" or "Redlands". Most tweets would be at the center of the city or state.

thoughts?

cc @DerrickBurke @jeffbaranyi

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Here are the types of places

• admin (state)
• city
• country
• neighborhood
• poi

I was thinking we would just map tweets that are POI or neighborhood. Or do you think we should map more? It seems like state and country would be way too vague to show the center of with a point.

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An example of a neighborhood is like "union square" in SF. Then I would just get the extent of that neighborhood and get the center of that.

The POI all seem to be points even though they are shown as polygons.

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I'm just going to go with neighborhoods and POI. others will not be added.

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