I am wondering whether we can use UBER API to figure out the number of drivers for a given location.
Our Need is to figure out the loaded areas where we have more people than others. To this end, we thought on different apps among them UBER which can also give an idea on how many people are on a given location.
Any help whether the UBER API can provide such information with exact location (longitude latitude). Our need, in terms of data, is to have a dataset for different exact locations showing the exact live ocation of drivers for a given city on a specific period of time.
Thank you in advance.
No, this is not available. Please see the docs here for the 3 endpoints on the driver API (none of which provide real-time availability / location): https://developer.uber.com/docs/drivers/introduction
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I looked at the API documentation and it was not immediately apparent to me. Is it available via partner access?
Also, the default rolling average for sentiment seems to be 7 days. Is there an option to change this. One obvious way of doing this is parsing the firehose and some partners probably do that. I don't care for all that data or parsing it, in the unlikely scenario where I can get access to that.
The Sentiment data is only available to partners that license our API. Please touch base with us and let us know what you would like to do and about your paid product:
http://stocktwits.com/developers/contact
There currently is no option to change the rolling average, we have plans to add different time frames, as we agree this would be helpful.
We offer a financial sentiment API at Knowsis.
API docs are available here: http://knowsis.github.io
There are lots of similar questions but my question is different in that sense i got coordinates of my current location in my application.
But now i want to show specific business offices in table view around that coordinates. I know ReverseGeoConding is answer to that but i cant find suitable tutorial or advice on this. How can i implement it.
Please suggest .
Reverse Geocoding will provide you with address information for the coordinates provided. In order to get businesses around those coordinates, you may want to look into external APIs. I believe Facebook has a Places API and Foursquare has an API as well. These may be able to provide you with local business information.
I am new iphone developer,please help to me.how can i find particular shops list in particular Zip Code.. that means i need to place pins in Some shops by searching Zipcode
Thanks in advance
I'm not sure there's a definitive "Right Way" to do what you're asking, but if it were me...
I would probably use Google's Places API to get a list of so-called Places (I gather this includes a fairly comprehensive list of businesses, as well as other points of interest) near the user. The API requires lat/long coordinates to resolve the list, you could either get that data from the user's iOS device (I don't develop for this platform so I can't give specifics) using Apple's location API, or if you really want to do a lookup by zipcode you might want to look at Google's Geocoding API. Keep in mind that Google's services are by no means the only game in town, and there are certainly other ways to do what you ask. But if it was me, this seems like the simplest solution
We need to display meta information (e.g, address, name) on our site for various venues like bars, restaurants, and theaters.
Ideally, users would type in the name of a venue, along with zip code, and we present the closest matches.
Which APIs have people used for similar geolocation purposes? What are the pros and cons of each?
Our basic research yielded a few options (listed in title and below). We're curious to hear how others have deployed these APIs and which ones are ultimately in use.
Fwix API: http://developers.fwix.com/
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Does Facebook plan on offering a Places API eventually that could accomplish this?
Thanks!
Facebook Places is based on Factual. You can use Factual's API which is pretty good (and still free, I think?)
http://www.factual.com/topic/local
You can also use unauthenticated Foursquare as a straight places database. The data is of uneven quality since it's crowdsourced, but I find it generally good. It's free to a certain API limit, but I think the paid tier is negotiated.
https://developer.foursquare.com/
I briefly looked at Google Places but didn't like it because of all the restrictions on how you have to display results (Google wants their ad revenue).
It's been a long time since this question was asked but a quick update on answers for other people.
This post, right now at least, will not go into great detail about each service but merely lists them:
http://wiki.developer.factual.com/w/page/12298852/start
http://developer.yp.com
http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation
https://developer.foursquare.com/
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
https://simplegeo.com/docs/api-endpoints/simplegeo-context
http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/
http://fwix.com/developer_tools
http://localeze.com/
They each have their pros and cons (i.e. Google Places only allows 20 results per query, Foursquare and Facebook Places have semi-unreliable results) which can be explained a bit more in detail, although not entirely, in the following link. http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Places-API
For my own project I ended up deciding to go with Factual's API since there are no restrictions on what you do with the data (one of the only ToS' that I've read in its entirety). Factual has a pretty reliable API, which as a user of the API you may update, modify, or flag rows of the data. Facebook Places bases their data on Factual's, just another fact to shed some perspective.
Hope I can be of help to any future searchers.
This is not a complete answer, because I havn't compared the given geolocation API, but there is also the Google Places API, which solves a similiar problem like the other APIs.
One thing about SimpleGeo: The Location API of SimpleGeo supports mainly US (and Canada?) based locations. The last time I checked, my home country Germany doesn't has many known locations.
Comparison between places data APIs is tough to keep up to date, with the fast past of the space, and with acquisitions like SimpleGeo and HyperPublic changing the landscape quickly.
So I'll just throw in CityGrids perspective as of February 2012. CityGrid provides 18M US places, allowing up to 10M requests per month for developers (publishers) at no charge.
You can search using a wide range of "what" and "where" (Cities, Neighborhoods, Zip Codes, Metro Areas, Addresses, Intersections) searches including latlong. We have rich data for each place including images, videos, reviews, offers, etc.
CityGrid also has a developer revenue sharing program where we'll pay you to display some places as well as large mobile and web advertising network.
You can also query Places via the CityGrid API using Factual, Foursquare and other places providers places and venue IDs. We aggregate data from several places data providers through our system.
Website: http://developer.citygridmedia.com/
I was wondering if anyone knows how to gather data from millions of people around the globe via these social networks in order to get the statistics. I need this for a project I'm trying to do and do not need to know the actual person posting such information (such as statuses, comments, information about them, etc) so as not to break any data privacy laws.
I need to know things like how many people commented about Obama today and what was their sex (female or male) and things like that.
is that possible in any way?
Thanks a million
I think you're asking if there are any resources to mine for social data.
Your best bet is to check out the Twitter or Facebook APIs. Variables like age, sex, location will probably be far more difficult to ascertain than raw status info, but it can be done.
For Twitter, I would recommend using the Twitter streaming API and filtering for specific keywords.
For MySpace, use the Real-Time Stream PUSH feature: http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Category:Real_Time_Stream
the best tool so far used to get data from most of the social network site is this, build an algorithm that will suit your need from the data you collected