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Ask HN: How does Twitter do geolocation?

2 pointsby BenSchaechteralmost 15 years ago
I've recently been traveling and along the way have been tweeting. I always check out my location as Twitter determines it. I'm really amazed with how specific their geolocation system gets. How are they doing geolocation on such a specific level?<p>Also, where are they getting their spatial overlays? Sometimes I'm tracked to districts in my own town I never even knew the name of. I'd love to have access to the source they're getting this data from.

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byoung2almost 15 years ago
Probably Google Location Services. That's what Mozilla uses: <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/</a>
abrahamalmost 15 years ago
Probably from <a href="http://geoapi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://geoapi.com/</a> which Twitter acquired in 2009.