hmmmmmm,
So what works? I 'only' need:
1/ sorting by distance (maybe, probably could be avoided in Solr)
2/ filtering by max distance, or at least a bounding box
3/ a pseudo field - distance from given point for each returned result
(REALLY a must).
Any of this available now?
Bare bones, if I had a bounding box that worked across the poles, I could
probably use a function as the value of the psuedo field, right?
Dennis Gearon
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--- On Fri, 9/24/10, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Calculating distances in Solr using longitude latitude
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:30 PM
> As it turns out, the problem is not
> trivial in general, and shoehorning it into an existing
> search system nicely is also not simple. I think the current
> spatial stuff is the third go-round on doing GIS in
> Lucene/Solr.
>
> PeterKerk wrote:
> > It would be such a shame if there's no way to get it
> now
> > already...particularly in today's online services,
> geolocation is one of the
> > hottest things there is, I definitely hope this
> feature gets major priority
> > over other features.
> >
> > Also same question as Dennis: whats the timeline on
> this feature? Or even a
> > way to get it running in the current release?
> >
