I'm also just starting a project requiring spatial indexing so any info would be greatly appreciated. I had a quick look at the wiki last night and it appears solr has it built in in the latest version? Not sure if the patches need applying directly though
My requirements are quite simple, I just need an ability to return results based on radial distance from one point http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch Thanks Dave Sent from my iPhone On 16 Jul 2010, at 17:50, "Dennis Gearon" <gear...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I hope that those who know will answer this. I am really interested in it > also. TIA. > > Dennis Gearon > > Signature Warning > ---------------- > EARTH has a Right To Life, > otherwise we all die. > > Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' > Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php > > > --- On Fri, 7/16/10, Saïd Radhouani <r.steve....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Saïd Radhouani <r.steve....@gmail.com> >> Subject: Spatial Search - Best choice (if any)? >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Date: Friday, July 16, 2010, 1:21 AM >> Hi, >> >> Using Solr 1.4, I'm now working on adding spatial search >> options, such as distance-based sorting, Bounding-box >> filter, etc. >> >> To the best of my knowledge, there are three possible >> points we can start from: >> >> 1. The >> http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/08/03/geo-location-search-with-solr-and-lucene/ >> 2. The gissearch.com >> 3. The >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html#resources >> >> >> I saw that these three options have been used but didn't >> see any comparison between them. Is there any one out there >> who can recommend one option over another? >> >> Thanks, >> -S
