Re: Geocoding with Solr

2012-07-29 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
City, Postcode, Country, Long/Lat* >> , Kent, Uk, 1.2/1.1 >> > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Geocoding-with-Solr-tp3997913p3997973.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ++

Re: Geocoding with Solr

2012-07-29 Thread Spadez
re will be "city" entries and "postcode", I dont how that would work, would the entry just be for a city for example: > *Town, City, Postcode, Country, Long/Lat* > , Kent, Uk, 1.2/1.1 > -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Geocodin

Re: Geocoding with Solr

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Spadez, I've had some success into using the nicely open data of GeoNames.org but that was modestly only to fetch zip-code-to-town-name and long-lat associations, search for "postal-codes". It would be lovely that some more best practice examples are distributed on how to handle, e.g., the lo

Geocoding with Solr

2012-07-28 Thread Spadez
reliance on google for this. Is it possible to import a database into Solr which linked both cities and postcodes to a co-ordinate, and use Solr for this as well? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Geocoding-with-Solr-tp3997913.html Sent from the Solr - User