You could client-side Google Geocoding on why the user typed in. Then get the lat,long returned from Google, and do a geo spatial searchÂ
On 10/6/11 9:27 AM, "Jason Toy" <jason...@gmail.com> wrote: >In our current system ,we have 3 fields for location, city, state, and >country. People in our system search for one of those 3 strings. >So a user can search for "San Francisco" or "California". In solr I store >those 3 fields as strings and when a search happens I search with an OR >statement across those 3 fields. > >Is there a more efficient way to store this data storage wise and/or speed >wise? We don't currently plan to use any spacial features like "3 miles >near SF".
