Fingers crossed, someday I’ll meet my target of collecting 1 million geotagged tweets. So then what? Well I’m not sure, but I’m guessing some geospatial based analysis might be fun.
Enter SimpleGeo. I don’t quite know what their business model is, but I like their products/APIs:
- Context: gives you contextual information about a place.
- Places: allows you to search for further Points of Interest (POIs) near a given location
- Storage: lets you store, index, and query geospatially tagged data
Plus SimpleGeo’s pricing seems pretty reasonable for hobbyist tinkerer like me. Not to mention they make the PolyMaps library, which seems mighty handy.