Steve,
I like your geospatial boosting algorithm; it makes sense.
FYI I'm collaborating with a couple other Lucene/Solr committers on a new
geospatial module here: http://code.google.com/p/lucene-spatial-playground/
It is very much in-progress. There is variable-points per document support
(ba
David, thanks for the kind words. Your Solr book is terrific. Without
it, my project would not have succeeded. I am in your debt.
The above spatial query filter eliminates GIS layers that do not
intersect a given map. I attempt to rank the intersecting layers according
to how similar t
Very cool!
What you've essentially described is a way of indexing & searching lat-lon
box shapes, and the cool thing is that you were able to do this without
custom coding / hacking of Solr. Sweet! I do have some observations about
this approach:
1. Doesn't support variable number of shapes per
