Hi, I want to create a very simple geocoder for returning co-ordinates of a place if a user enters in a town or city. There seems to be very little information about doing it the way I suggest, so I hope I am on a good path.
My first decision was to divide SOLR into two cores, since I am already using SOLR as my search server. One core would be for the main search of the site and one for the geocoding. My second decision is to store the name data in a normalised state, some examples are shown below: London, England England Swindon, Wiltshire, England The third decision was to return “autosuggest” results, for example when the user types “Lond” I would like to suggest “London, England”. For this to work I think it makes sense to return up to 5 results via JSON based on relevancy and have these displayed under the search box. My fourth decision is that when the user actually hits the “search” button on the location field, SOLR is again queries and returns the most relevant result, including the co-ordinates which are stored. Am I on a good path here? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Custom-Geocoder-with-Solr-and-Autosuggest-tp4000791.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
