#Texans Tweets
(Not particularly happy with lack of geocoded tweets. Will return to this in the future for possible visualization -11/30/12)
A simple bit of newsroom hackery adapted from Katherine Jarmul and her most excellent Poynter NewsU lecture. Note: This will most definitely be tweaked to and customized, but I'm experimenting with blocks.
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Texans Tweets</title> | |
| <meta name="viewport" | |
| content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"> | |
| <meta charset="UTF-8"> | |
| <style type="text/css"> | |
| html, body, #map_canvas { | |
| margin: 0; | |
| padding: 0; | |
| height: 100%; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script> | |
| <script type="text/javascript" | |
| src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script> | |
| <script type="text/javascript"> | |
| var map; | |
| var marker, i; | |
| function initialize() { | |
| var myOptions = { | |
| zoom: 10, | |
| center: new google.maps.LatLng(29.762778,-95.383056), | |
| mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP | |
| }; | |
| map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map_canvas'), | |
| myOptions); | |
| $.getJSON('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=Texans&lang=en&geocode=29.762778,-95.383056,30mi&count=100&callback=processTweets', | |
| function(data) { | |
| var data = data.results; | |
| for(var i=0; i<data.length; i++) { | |
| if (data[i].geo) { | |
| var lat = data[i].geo.coordinates[0]; | |
| var lng = data[i].geo.coordinates[1]; | |
| var text = "<a href='http://twitter.com/" + data[i].from_user + "'>@" | |
| + data[i].from_user + "</a>: " + data[i].text; | |
| marker = new google.maps.Marker({ | |
| position: new google.maps.LatLng(lat,lng), | |
| map: map | |
| }); | |
| markerInfoWindow(marker, text); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| function markerInfoWindow(marker, information){ | |
| google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function(){ | |
| var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({ | |
| content: information | |
| }); | |
| infowindow.open(map, marker); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize); | |
| </script> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div id="map_canvas"></div> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |