does the data from the api contain geo location info?

By mdude

News usually happens somewhere. Wondering if the data coming back from the API as geo tag on it.

No geo-tags.

Moxie,

We know any place names that are mentioned in an article or image in the Daylife system. You can use the article_getTopics or image_getTopics APIs to get that data with include_topic_type=place. It will return you all the names of places that are mentioned in the article body or the image caption.

We however do not return any lat/long tags for these places. You will have to use a geo service like Yahoo FireEagle or maybe any Google services to get a lat long for these places.

- Vineet

Another Option

Just to elaborate. Another option is to use GeoIP. While GeoIP is primarily intended for IP Geo Location It will give you the Longitude & Latitude for almost every known location. I would use the paid version cause for some 99 dollars odd you get precise accuracy. Also since you are querying a local database table it is heaps faster than Yahoo, FireEagle or Google API's.