Re: Re: Solr and location based searches

2010-02-02 Thread sandro . ruch
Thank guys... very helpful links and good starting points... :-) Am 02.02.2010 10:23 schrieb Hannes Carl Meyer : Hi Sandro, it is possible but beside the technical platform you will need a good data basis for example Geonames, Y! Geo etc. You should also check the following article by Grant

Re: Solr and location based searches

2010-02-02 Thread Hannes Carl Meyer
Hi Sandro, it is possible but beside the technical platform you will need a good data basis for example Geonames, Y! Geo etc. You should also check the following article by Grant Ingersoll: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html Are we talking about a global or

Re: Solr and location based searches

2010-02-02 Thread Markus Jelsma
Hi, You can use three different approaches: - Solr Spatial [1]; - Local Solr [2]; - Implement it yourself [3]. The first is promising, the latter is fun but is far less useful and powerful! [1]: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch [2]: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LocalSolr [3]: http://wi

Solr and location based searches

2010-02-01 Thread sandro . ruch
Hi all, We want to use Solr because of its facet based functionalities... now the customer want to combine searches based on facets with location based searches (all objects 10 miles around this particular zip)... Is this possible in Solr or is there no way? Thanks and best regards, Sandro