From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere: > Building Local/Geo-Search > with Apache Lucene and Solr Join us for a free webinar hosted by TechTarget / TheServerSide.com > Wednesday, November 18th 2009 > 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST Click here to sign up > http://theserversidecom.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1257457967_42.html&asrc=CL_PRM_Lucid_11_18_09_c&li=252934 With new advances in the flexibility and customizability of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, the ubiquity of location-aware devices and vast amounts of spatial data, tremendous opportunities open up to deliver more powerful and effective geo-aware search results. We'll hear from Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the Apache Lucene PMC, for an in-depth technical workshop on the potential and application of the newly released Lucene and Solr geo-search functions. Grant will be joined by thought leaders: Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS and Apache Lucene PMC member; and Sameer Maggon, of AT&T Interactive, which manages and delivers online and mobile advertising products across AT&T's media platforms. > Features and benefits of using spatial data in a search engine > > Representing and leveraging spatial data in Lucene to empower Local Search > > Spatial search in action, a peek at Voyager GIS, a tool to index and search > > geographic data > > How AT&T Interactive uses Solr/Lucene to power local search at YP.com Click here to sign up > http://theserversidecom.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1257457967_42.html&asrc=CL_PRM_Lucid_11_18_09_c&li=252934
> About the presenters: Grant Ingersoll > Co-founder of Lucid Imagination > Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination, is a published expert in > search and Natural Language Processing, with many articles published on > Lucene, Solr, findability, relevance, and is co-founder of the Apache Mahout > machine learning project. Grant's the author of the forthcoming book "Taming > Text", from Manning publications. Ryan McKinley > Co-founder of Voyager GIS > Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS, works with technology to help find, > share, and distribute information. He has built many sites using solr, > including: ludb.clui.org andwww.digitalcommonwealth.org. He was a partner at > Squid Labs and co-founded www.instructables.com. Ryan is a member of Lucid > Imagination's Technical Advisory Board. Sameer Maggon > AT&T Interactive > Sameer Maggon leads the Search Engineering Team at AT&T Interactive. He > helped the company launch YP.com that uses Solr underneath. Before joining > AT&T Interactive, he worked with Siderean (http://www.siderean.com) working > on an enterprise search and navigation product that used Lucene and was > ultimately responsible for delivering the technology behind their new > product. Sameer has been been an active Lucene user since 2001. >
