Extracting Tweet geographic coordinates with tweepy

In this step, you'll create a Python script that uses the Python tweepy module to extract tweets containing geographic coordinates and write this information to a local feature class. The tweepy module is designed to provide access to all the Twitter REST API methods. This will be a standalone script that can be run from the command line or the Python development environment. It will create a listener style environment that will continue to be executed, looking for live tweets until you kill the process.

Follow these steps to create the script:

1. Before completing this section of the chapter, you will need to download and install the tweepy Python module using pip. Issue the following command from Command Prompt. The instruction to install pip can be found in previous chapter:

   pip install tweepy 
   

2. Tweepy supports the OAuth authentication required to connect with Twitter. The first step is to register your client application with Twitter. In...