I believe that what you need is spatial search... Have a look a the documention: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Venu Shankar <venushankar...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I have a design question for Solr. > > I work for an enterprise which has a lot of retail stores (approx. 20K). > These retail stores are spread across the world. My search requirement is > to find all the cities which are within x miles of a retail store. > > So lets say if we have a retail Store in San Francisco and if I search for > "San" then San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Jose, San Juan, etc should be > returned as they are within x miles from San Francisco. I also want to rank > the search results by their distance. > > I can create an index with all the cities in it but I am not sure how do I > ensure that the cities returned in a search result have a nearby retail > store. Any suggestions ? > > Thanks, > Venu, > -- Dirceu Vieira Júnior ------------------------------------------------------------------- +47 9753 2473 dirceuvjr.blogspot.com twitter.com/dirceuvjr
