twitter and more help needed

[g7hej]

hi, i am new to all this, firstly my twitter is giving this out
g7hej 08/09/10 07:13:52 10.7 89 9.0 0.0 1.6 180 0.0 0.0 1001.6 S 0 mph C mb mm 1.1 +0.2 23.7 23.7 14.7 13.3 60 10.7 +0.1 12.0 00:01 9.1 04:10 0.7 i know what it means but my friends dont can i set it to send a different format. I also trying to set my lat/log but i have taken it from uiview software and it adjusts cause it a different format, 3rdly i have a domain name g7hej.org with easyspace what do i do next for webpage. thank you.

regards graham in the centre of blackpool.

[daj]

Hi Graham

Welcome to the forum.

Firstly, regarding Twitter, you can customise the output to anything you wish. You need to modify a text file in the Cumulus folder and use the necessary Cumulus 'webtags'. More info on the wiki.... http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Twitter

What have you put in as you lat/log?

For your domain name, you need to find someone to host it (i.e. offer webspace with the name). Easyspace probably do a package

[g7hej]

Hi this is taken from uiview so 5349.81N 00302.47W and cumulus keeps changing so it seems different format. i live :- http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=G7HEJ this is correct as uiview forwards on aprs. looking forward to website.
regards graham

[daj]

Enter your co-ordinates as

Latitude
Deg=53
min=83
sec=01
N

Longitude
Deg=3
min=04
sec=11
W


If you want to be less precise (i.e. not show exactly where your house/station is), change the "sec" to 00 in each which is enough to be near-by but not exact

[steve]

Did you get your Twitter sorted out? That's a realtime.txt file that you have quoted there, which is a bit of an odd thing to be tweeting - I'm not even sure how you're doing that. The default format is much more readable; see here - http://twitter.com/sandayweather (ignore the fact that I'm not tweeting at the moment). Or as David says, you can customise it.

[Paul C]

I have been on twitter for a while now. I dont tweet much just allow Cumulus to post the messages. I do like the new bit which shows your location. But on twitter it shows up as "Carlisle" which is 10miles to my west. I would prefer it to say "Brampton" my home town. How would you go about changing it ? tks

http://twitter.com/#!/bramptonweather

[steve]

But on twitter it shows up as "Carlisle" which is 10miles to my west. I would prefer it to say "Brampton" my home town. How would you go about changing it ?

You can't change it; it's the nearest place to you that Twitter knows about (it uses your co-ordinates given to it by Cumulus). Twitter says my location is "Orkney Islands, Orkney Islands" (so good they named it twice).