Sounds like you need to use code and post process your results as it sounds too 
specific to your use case. Just my opinion, unless you want to get into spacial 
queries which is a whole different animal and something I don’t think many have 
experience with, including myself 

> On Feb 16, 2019, at 10:10 AM, Nicolas Paris <nicolas.pa...@riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Thanks.
> To clarify, I don't want to sort by numeric fields, instead, I d'like to
> get sort by distance to my query.
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 06:20:19PM -0500, Gus Heck wrote:
>> Hi Niclolas,
>> 
>> Solr has no difficulty sorting on numeric fields if they are indexed as a
>> numeric type. Just use "&sort=weight asc" If you're field is indexed as
>> text of course it won't sort properly, but then you should fix your schema.
>> 
>> -Gus
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:10 PM David Hastings <hastings.recurs...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not clearly understanding your question here.  if your query is
>>> q=kind:animal weight:50 you will get no results, as nothing matches
>>> (assuming a q.op of AND)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:06 PM Nicolas Paris <nicolas.pa...@riseup.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> I have a numeric field (say "weight") and I d'like to be able to get
>>>> results sorted.
>>>> q=kind:animal weight:50
>>>> pf=kind^2 weight^3
>>>> 
>>>> would return:
>>>> name=dog, kind=animal, weight=51
>>>> name=tiger, kind=animal,weight=150
>>>> name=elephant, kind=animal,weight=2000
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In other terms how to deal with numeric fields ?
>>>> 
>>>> My first idea is to encode numeric into letters (one x per value)
>>>> dog xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> tiger xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> elephant
>>>> 
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> 
>>>> and the query would be
>>>> kind:animal, weight:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> How to deal with numeric fields ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> --
>>>> nicolas
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> http://www.the111shift.com
> 
> -- 
> nicolas

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