一条推文的地理位置

Question

I am using Tweepy (python) to access to Twitter Search API, and I am looking to extract the geo-coordinates of the tweet.

As you can see in the screenshot, I found geo and coordinates , and they are inverted.

I would like to know if I am in the good track first, then how can I distinguish between Latitude & Longitude ?

Answer 1

If it's not in Antarctica, the -80.xxxx is longitude. For longitude, the US is like ~79-80ish to ~120 something (I'm approximating). It seems like the first value in 'coordinates':{} is longitude, whereas the first value in 'geo':{} is latitude.

Answer 2

" coordinates " is the official field for this info while the " geo " field is deprecated. So ignore the geo field. For further details see this discussion http://bit.ly/1sM62oH

Answer 3

You would need four data points for a bounding box that can be found from OpenStreetMap. For example the coordinates for Madison is as follows:

twitterStream.filter(locations=[-89.566389,42.998071,-89.246452,43.171916]) #Madison, WI