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Does anyone know what API twitter uses to search for a city when you want to add location to a tweet?

  • I'd like to use a similar API that lets users search for a city (rather than POI) and will include lat/long Google offers that but with very small daily call limit and they require to present the results on google map. Twitter does not present the result on google maps so i assume they use something else...

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    You probably want to look at MaxMind or http://hostip.info

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Twitter does geolocation (converting latitude/longitude to a place name) in-house. They bought a geolocation service called "Mixer" back in 2009: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-Acquires-Geolocation-Provider-Mixer-Labs-289188/ (This article was the first google result for "twitter geolocation provider," by the way. Try googling for "geolocation API" or "geonames API" if you're looking for one you can use.)

Michael Bauser

The foursquare API allows you to search based on a latitude-longitude specification. Look at: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/search.html It returns an array of venues close to the specified lat-long, which includes the address of the venues from which you can get the city name. The rate limit is 5,000 requests per hour.

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