Twitterlocal/GMap Tweaks
Ah, programming. This morning was devoted to tweaking the Twitterlocal / Google Map mashup I put together last week:
- Started to use Google Map’s geocoding feature to jump you to the right point if you enter a zip or city,state into the search.
- The page can now take a starting location via the URL
- Matching on @ replies and linking them to their target on Twitter
- Fixed some HTML markup that was creeping thru
- Styled the detail page to make it more readable
Now that the page can be fed a location via the URL, we can do cool stuff like find breaking news/weather/etc, ideally from automated feeds, and feeding that to the map. If there’s some crazy weather that happens to be tearing through a town somewhere, we should be able to see peoples’ reactions while or soon after it happens…
I’ve written a script that will parse through severe weather feeds on the NOAA website, so now we just need some noteworthy weather to happen somewhere to test it out.
Yes, I’ll save you the time and suspend myself from the coathook, thank you very much.
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steve says:
mn i could fight an ape right now im so good at licking cards
contact the president if you need to eat some cardboard tubes cause thats how i got hooked up to a box of melted horns