Comments on: DIY mashup of Twitter friends tweets on a map http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/06/13/diy-mashup-of-twitter-friends-tweets-on-a-map/ sharing ideas thoughts and feedback Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: James Corbett http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/06/13/diy-mashup-of-twitter-friends-tweets-on-a-map/#comment-32032 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:40:46 +0100 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/06/13/diy-mashup-of-twitter-friends-tweets-on-a-map/#comment-32032 Oops, I should have been much clearer in my instructions John, thanks for drawing my attention to that confusing point. I didn't see the earlier link to the "Reuters World News on a Map" link and was, as you figured out, actually referring to the ws.geonames.org/etc URL further down in the page, not the exploreourpla.net one. True, it's a rather hit and miss mashup as it depends in large part on the uniqueness of the placenames people refer to and the punctuation and spelling. That why it might work better in a geographically specific type of application like @CorkProb on Twitter which is used to aggregate civic problems in County Cork in southern Ireland. My GeoRSS account shows how accurately that works (except for one miss-hit in South Africa!) - http://tinyurl.com/2f466h Oops, I should have been much clearer in my instructions John, thanks for drawing my attention to that confusing point. I didn’t see the earlier link to the “Reuters World News on a Map” link and was, as you figured out, actually referring to the ws.geonames.org/etc URL further down in the page, not the exploreourpla.net one.

True, it’s a rather hit and miss mashup as it depends in large part on the uniqueness of the placenames people refer to and the punctuation and spelling. That why it might work better in a geographically specific type of application like @CorkProb on Twitter which is used to aggregate civic problems in County Cork in southern Ireland. My GeoRSS account shows how accurately that works (except for one miss-hit in South Africa!) - http://tinyurl.com/2f466h

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