Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

#1

Post by hellotoby » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 11:12 PM UTC

I'm working on an MVP which displays geolocated data from social sites on a map. So far I'm importing json data from the following sites:

- Instagram - Twitter

I'm looking for more APIs that I can use to get data for my app. The data needs to be public. Does anyone know of any other popular sites with publicly available geolocated data?

Re: Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

#2

Post by pizza » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 11:29 PM UTC

This might be of interest: http://wikilocation.org/

Re: Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

#3

Post by dmils4 » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 11:44 PM UTC

Have you looked at Ban.jo? (http://www.ban.jo) <-- sounds pretty similar, you might get some interesting insights from checking out their app if you don't know about it already.

Re: Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

#4

Post by hellotoby » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 11:48 PM UTC

dmils4 wrote: post #3

Have you looked at Ban.jo? ( http://www.ban.jo ) <-- sounds pretty similar, you might get some interesting insights from checking out their app if you don't know about it already.

I hadn't heard of Ban.jo. Looks great. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

#5

Post by hellotoby » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 11:49 PM UTC

pizza wrote: post #2

This might be of interest: http://wikilocation.org/

Great! Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

#6

Post by kylemaxwell » Mon, Feb 20, 2012, 12:26 AM UTC

You might look at Flickr as well: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

And I don't know whether the Google+ API supports geolocation yet, but I expect it will soon if it does not.