I spent this shorts periods of free time this long weekend providing iPhone support to GeoTwitter, actually for a non UI person like me a little more difficult that I thought, still looking back to it, looks pretty crappy compared to other iPhone designs like Hahlo.

The improvements in the new version already available at CodePlex includes;

• iPhone support including geolocations, allowing you to set the location by just entering the street, city, state, county. Saved in your profile until you change it.
• AutoLogin, if you check the Remember Me checkbox, every time you come back to geotwitter.net you'll be auto login into the system.
• Major code clean up and moved crappy code from pages to classes.
• The Google maps now open on the iPhone to see the location and the messages of your friends, you can pan, zoom in and out. The iPhone Google Maps support GeoRSS and that's how GeoTwitter streams the positions to the iPhone internal Google Maps application.
• Added support to enter the address in the main page (not using the iPhone) or to click on the map.

Also participate on the reply tracking by following http://twitter.com/mvps

Every reply you get from watched twitter users, will be recorded and added on the list: http://geotwitter.net/replies.aspx Right now, Scott Hanselman is in the top of the list, no shocker as he is famous for engaging the audience on his speeches.

I'll improving and testing GeoTwitter on the iPhone, having the internal iPhone Google maps read the posts by location using GeoRSS is a great advance, however, what I would like to do now is to be able to refresh Google maps every x amount of time to enhance the experience using GeoRSS. The user won't have to leave the iPhone Google maps to read the posts, only to write a message.

Also all posts from geotwitter now come with location as well as from geotwitter tag, thanks to Twitter for doing that.

For more information, please follow me with GeoTwitter or subscribe to the blog. Feel free to help out with the cleaning of the code or with the UI at codeplex.

Please be sure to leave comments and feedback, any idea is important to me. What do you like and what do you hate, did you find bugs? If you have an iPhone please use Google Maps app to read the messages.

You can add GeoTwitter.NET on your website, by adding the code below. A map will show on your website/blog with the latest updates geocoded. Also by using a parameter you can only show where are you at the time.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://geotwitter.net/Where.ashx">

or just you with:

<script type="text/javascript" src=http://geotwitter.net/Where.ashx?Username=alpascual">

You can add width, height on the parameters to change the map size as well you need googlekey to use the maps.

Cheers

Al