Im now thinking I downloaded the wrong solr zip, I tried this one: https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/Solr-trunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/solr/dist/apache-solr-4.0-2010-10-12_08-05-48.zip
In that example scheme (\apache-solr-4.0-2010-10-12_08-05-48\example\example-DIH\solr\db\conf\schema.xml) nothing is mentioned about a fieldtype of class solr.LatLonType. But when I add the lines you suggested to my current schema.xml, I get no error, so apparently the LatLonType IS found? Here's what I now have in my schema.xml <fieldType name="location" class="solr.LatLonType" subFieldSuffix="_coordinate"/> <dynamicField name="*_coordinate" type="tdouble" indexed="true" stored="false"/> <field name="geolocation" type="location" indexed="true" stored="true"/> and this url: http://localhost:8983/solr/db/select/?wt=xml&indent=on&facet=true&fl=id,title,lat,lng,city&facet.field=province_raw&q=*:*&fq={!geofilt%20pt=51.8316819,5.8151540%20sfield=geolocation%20d=500} I also tried this: http://localhost:8983/solr/db/select/?wt=xml&indent=on&facet=true&fl=id,title,lat,lng,geolocation,city&facet.field=province_raw&q=*:* So WITHOUT the geofilter. Strange thing there is that the geolocation field does not show up in the results (even though I restarted my app server, reloaded my data-config and did a full import) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Spatial-search-in-Solr-1-5-tp489948p1694443.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.