Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to enable spatial search for my use case.
I have documents that are in many cases associated with multiple geo locations. I'd like to filter documents by the minimum distance to a reference point (which is given at query time). What this means is: If at least one of the locations of a document lies within a certain radius of the point, it should be included in the result. Which field type can I use for this and how would I have to do the filtering? Sorting (by distance) isn't relevant at this point, but it might be in the future. The example in Solr 3.4 states in schema.xml for the fieldType "location" (field "store"): "A specialized field for geospatial search. If indexed, this fieldType must not be multivalued." If I used a field of type solr.LatLonType this would mean that I could have multivalued="true", but no indexing? This means that I couldn't do fast bounding box / range queries on the locations in order to narrow down the result for a distance filter, correct? So wich one is better? Thanks! Marian
