Multimap twitter bot
As you all probably know by now, I work for multimap. We recently updated our public site so have a look. Also if you want to play a bit we have an open API available. Me and a couple of others have also been playing with a new twitter bot, so add multimap as a friend and have a play. More details here and here.
So here is a quick primer regarding address specifications:
If you know what lon,lat is and how to get it please use it as you know it will always be correct. Most people will probably want to use an address string though.
The best way to know if an address string will give you what you want is to try it out on the multimap website. There’s a few things to remember though. On the site you choose a country while with twitterbot you don’t. With twitterbot you can always add a country’s 2 letter ISO code to the end of the address string to specify country (Or the full country name if you don’t know the ISO code).
A good example would be:
street,town, state, pc, country
That doesn’t mean that if you just say Barcelona it wont work, but using “Barcelona,ES” will give you a much better result.
You can also use 5 or 9 digit US zip codes or UK postcodes without adding a country, but these are special cases.
Anyway, we would love to see some feedback.
Read what Colm and Richard did at Hack Day.
Thanks
Willem Basson
