>From what I can tell, it's being controlled in the browser. I CAN'T tell if >it's being generated in the browser or in the server.
Which is it in the example,and where to you want it generated? Do you want the DATA for the clusters, or the actual icons also? Looks like a display object way to do density mapping, wherein a single object replaces a local segment of a 'density topgraphic 2D area' 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 Tue, 9/14/10, Charlie DeTar <c...@media.mit.edu> wrote: > From: Charlie DeTar <c...@media.mit.edu> > Subject: Re: Geographic clustering > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 6:22 PM > On 09/14/2010 07:48 PM, Dennis Gearon > wrote: > > You are probably not talking about clusters in the > physical structure of data on this disk, right? > > > > What do YOU mean by clusters if not? > > I mean basically "range facets", where the ranges are > 2-dimensional > distances between documents that have indexed latitudes and > longitudes. > > An example of what I mean: > > http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/04/markerclusterer-solution-to-too-many.html > http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclusterer/1.0/examples/simple_example.html > > If you zoom in (or, in an analogy with searching, specify a > bounding box > within which to look for documents), the grouped points > become > individual points. > > This is basically the same idea as "Show me the widgets > between $0 and > $100", and then narrowing further from $50 to $60. > But instead of just > a single float or int, it's a distance calculation to a 2D > point. > > The mapping stuff is all out-of-scope for Solr, but > indexing of > documents in such a way that I could get counts of > documents in various > geographic ranges seems useful to anyone interested in > providing a > browsing/searching interface to a large corpus of > geographic data. > > Does that explain it? The previous thread which > discusses this is here: > > http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/16d0dbc4ac0a7540/geographic_clustering#6c1bba9a39df5f1b > > best, > Charlie >
