the userscript tag
Improving Twitter’s Location Field
Faruk Ates just asked on Twitter about:
“You know, wouldn’t it make more sense if Twitter made geo-coordinates as the Location field a hyperlink to Google Maps?” - @KuraFire
And he’s right. Most twitter clients for mobile devices (including Twitterific for the iPhone, my Twitter client of choice) set your location to your current coordinates, because that’s what the API for the internal GPS returns. But it’s hardly helpful. I’m currently at 47.270721, 11.409668 but without the Google Maps link noone would know where those coordinates are.
Since I’ve been working a lot with JavaScript lately, I figured I could just write a simple Greasemonkey userscript that remedies that problem. So, without much further ado, I give you the Twitter Google Maps Link Greasemonkey script!
You need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox or another browser with userscript support (Opera 8+, IE, …). There’s a Greasemonkey extension for almost every browser but I’ll just refer you to the Greasemonkey Wikipedia Article.
Just install my script
- either from the userscripts.org page
- or download from here
and browse to your favourite twitter user pages (for example @aetherworld ;) It also works for non-coordinate locations like on @KuraFire’s twitter page. Enjoy!
