(This is one of those messages that I would have responded to at the time if I only noticed it.)
There is not yet indexing of arbitrary shapes (i.e. your data can only be points), but with SOLR-2155 you can query via WKT thanks to JTS. If you want to index shapes then you'll have to wait a month or two for work that is underway right now. It's coming; be patient. I don't see the LGPL licensing as a problem; it's *L*GPL, not GPL, after all. In SOLR-2155 the patch I take measures to download this library dynamically at build time and compile against it. JTS need not ship with Solr; the user can get it themselves if they want this capability. Non-JTS query shapes should work without the presence of JTS. ~ David Smiley Author: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/ On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Adam Estrada wrote: > I just came across a ~nudge post over in the SIS list on what the status is > for that project. This got me looking more in to spatial mods with Solr4.0. > I found this enhancement in Jira. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155. In this issue, David > mentions that he's already integrated JTS in to Solr4.0 for querying on > polygons stored as WKT. > > It's relatively easy to get WKT strings in to Solr but does the Field type > exist yet? Is there a patch or something that I can test out? > > Here's how I would do it using GDAL/OGR and the already existing csv update > handler. http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html > > ogr2ogr -f CSV output.csv input.shp -lco GEOMETRY=AS_WKT > This converts a shapefile to a csv with the geometries in tact in the form of > WKT. You can then get the data in to Solr by running the following command. > curl > "http://localhost:8983/solr/update/csv?commit=true&separator=%2C&fieldnames=id,attr1,attr2,attr3,geom&stream.file=C:\tmp\output.csv&overwrite=true&stream.contentType=text/plain;charset=utf-8"; > There are lots of flavors of geometries so I suspect that this will be a > daunting task but because JTS recognizes each geometry type it should be > possible to work with them. > Does anyone know of a patch or even when this functionality might be included > in to Solr4.0? I need to query for polygons ;-) > Thanks, > Adam
