I’ve been doing some extra work on the Geo Tweets I implemented. I now use Google’s language Detection tools to determine the language of the tweet so that placemaker produces better results. This will avoid having for example Mich (Michigan) being recognized as a place in German tweets.
I also made added most popular places tweeted about during the last day, week or month. These can be seen in the following page: http://www.geomojo.org/cgi-bin/geotweets.cgi
There are still some problem with false positive (words that have falsely been tagged as being a location) in languages that are not supported by placemaker. The most common of the false positive I’ve seen so far is Kan in Indonesian.
