Places are specific, named locations with corresponding geo coordinates. They can be attached to Tweets by specifying a place_id when tweeting. Tweets associated with places are not necessarily issued from that location but could also potentially be about that location. Places can be created and searched for. Tweets can also be found by place_id. See About Geo Place Attributes for more information.
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Field Guide
Consumers of Places should tolerate the addition of new fields and variance in ordering of fields with ease. Not all fields appear in all contexts. It is generally safe to consider a nulled field, an empty set, and the absence of a field as the same thing.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| attributes | Object |
Contains a hash of variant information about the place. See About Geo Place Attributes.
Example: "attributes": { "street_address": "795 Folsom St", "623:id": "210176", "twitter": "twitter" }, |
| bounding_box | Object |
A bounding box of coordinates which encloses this place.
Example: "bounding_box":{"coordinates":[ [ [2.2241006,48.8155414], [2.4699099,48.8155414], [2.4699099,48.9021461], [2.2241006,48.9021461] ] ], "type":"Polygon"} |
| country | String |
Name of the country containing this place.
Example: "country":"France" |
| country_code | String |
Shortened country code representing the country containing this place.
Example: "country_code":"FR" |
| full_name | String |
Full human-readable representation of the place's name.
Example: "full_name":"Paris, Paris" |
| id | String |
ID representing this place. Note that this is represented as a string, not an integer.
Example: "id":"7238f93a3e899af6" |
| name | String |
Short human-readable representation of the place's name.
Example: "name":"Paris" |
| place_type | String |
The type of location represented by this place.
Example: "place_type":"city" |
| url | String |
URL representing the location of additional place metadata for this place.
Example: "url":"http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/7238f93a3e899af6.json" |
Bounding box
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| coordinates | Array of Array of Array of Float |
A series of longitude and latitude points, defining a box which will contain the Place entity this bounding box is related to. Each point is an array in the form of [longitude, latitude]. Points are grouped into an array per bounding box. Bounding box arrays are wrapped in one additional array to be compatible with the polygon notation.
Example: "coordinates":[ [ [2.2241006,48.8155414], [2.4699099,48.8155414], [2.4699099,48.9021461], [2.2241006,48.9021461] ] ] |
| type | String |
The type of data encoded in the coordinates property. This will be "Polygon" for bounding boxes.
Example: "type":"Polygon" |
