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Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @09:48AM (#4697623)
not yet, but good remark. I will use history API to update the URL
Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @09:31AM (#4697547)
I use the public stream with a filter on location (:locations => '-180,-90,180,90') Twitter doesn't seem to have limitation for that.

The backend is written in Ruby. The daemon to index tweets use the great Intridea gem https://github.com/intridea/tweetstream.

The page http://onemilliontweetmap.com/ is simple Sinatra application, and I use REDIS pub/sub to push tweets to the browser.

Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @08:09AM (#4697279)
This map shows only geolocalized tweets. Usually, tweets are geolocalized when they are sent with a mobile.

Also twitter stream don't send 100% of the tweets, it will be to huge. But statically speaking, it should be enough to have a good picture.

May be there are some restrictions in Canada.

This map give us a lot of information about twitter more than the first fun and wow effect. I like that!

Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:52AM (#4697223)
What do you mean? We just display data from twitter stream. You can use their stream if you want to
Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @05:52AM (#4696977)
Correct, I worked hard on that new version and I thought a lot before finding the idea of that demo to show what you can do with maptimize.

I really like that tweet demo. You can find a lot of interesting information, like tweets in your area as you said.

The heatmap is also interesting when you need to analyze huge amount of data like this.

You can also see where twitter is very active. I was surprised to see that Indonesia is very active.

Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:24AM (#4696785)
I fixed it I just removed the IE detection detection. (The demo doesn't support IE 8 and less) Thanks for the report
Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:22AM (#4696781)
could you try again
Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:18AM (#4696772)
weird gonna check right now! thanks
I'm using it and it's always a pleasure to have this morning email !
I will provide API for leaflet which is also a wrapper. I'll take a look to Mapstraction and definitively support it to

This goal is to make something very easy to extend.

Re:On Community Funding of Open Source on Friday March 30, 2012 @07:58AM (#3775510)
IHMO, This is a much better way than donation.

Donation just dont work. For example MongoID got $2800 for how many hours, days and months of work? And he's lucky, I don't have projects in mind but most of the time people get like $100.

I also agree about:

"why I keep seeing such negative feedback around Yehuda's choice of soliciting money to bring us Rails.app. Sure, it may just be a few of you, but if you don't want to give Yehuda money, fine, just don't. If you think Yehuda is asking for too much money, fine, just don't donate. If you just don't like Yehuda, fine, just don't donate."

Two thumbs up for kickstarter.com too!

Re:Show HN: HackerBooks.com on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @05:22AM (#2249394)
Very useful and damn fast!
Re:Lots of markers on Google Maps on Friday October 08, 2010 @05:03AM (#1771061)
Thanks for mentioning Maptimize. I really appreciate.

I am Sébastien Gruhier, founder of Maptimize. If anyone has questions regarding about our service, please contact me at sebastien dot gruhier at maptimize dot com

Thanks

Re:Ask HN: french HN-minded forum or site to suggest ? on Sunday June 27, 2010 @04:15PM (#1466138)
May be it worths making it something simple and easy to use :)
Re:MockSMTP.app - e-mail testing for Mac OS X on Saturday January 09, 2010 @03:45AM (#1041240)
This is not the goal of mocksmtp. It's for first level testing. Checking html and correcting rendering with webkit. Then of course you need to test other mail/weblmail reader or with litmus as mention before.

It's like make HTML/CSS for a webpage. First level, you create you HTML/CSS code and test it with Firefox usually. Then when you are happy with, you check safari/chrome and debug IE :).

Re:MockSMTP.app - e-mail testing for Mac OS X on Saturday January 09, 2010 @03:40AM (#1041234)
Because if you use a real smtp server: - Sometimes setup are not easy (like using gmail in a rails app) - It's not instant - You need a internet connection.
Re:MockSMTP.app - e-mail testing for Mac OS X on Friday January 08, 2010 @04:04PM (#1040432)
this is not the goal of mocksmtp. It's for first level testing. Checking html and correcting rendering with webkit. Then of course you need to test other mail/weblmail reader