> > It's not saying specifically we can't compile against LGPL, it's ambiguously > saying "include". I take that to mean the result of the build -- e.g. class > and jar files, which may not include LGPL.
This uncertainty was was enough to make it a non starter for us. > RE SIS... I wonder how the expertise on that project compares to that of > JTS's Martin Davis -- an expert, and the library has been in use for 10 years. Time will tell. I'd favor the Apache model where instead of name dropping we rely on the collective expertise p a group of like minded individuals. Cheers, Chris > > ~ David > ________________________________________ > From: Mattmann, Chris A (388J) [chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:00 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Cc: Adam Estrada > Subject: Re: [WKT] Spatial Searching > > LGPL licenses and Apache aren't exactly compatible, see: > > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#transition-examples-lgpl > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x > > In practice, this was the reason we started the SIS project. > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Smiley, David W. wrote: > >> (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 > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
