Gaaah, thought I looked at which version that page was from, obviously
screwed it up. Thanks for the correction.

Erick


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Smiley, David W. <dsmi...@mitre.org> wrote:

> Erick,
>   Alex asked about Solr 4 spatial, and his use-case requires it because
> he's got multi-value spatial fields (multiple business office locations
> per document).  So the Solr 3 spatial solution you posted won't cut it.
>
> Alex,
>   You can do this in Solr 4.0.  Use one facet.query per circle (I.e.
> Distance ring away from center).  Here's an example with just one
> facet.query:
> http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?q=*%3A*&wt=xml&facet=true&fac
> et.query=geo:%22Intersects%28Circle%2845.15,-93.85%20d=0.045%29%29%22
> That facet.query without url escaping is:
> geo:"Intersects(Circle(45.15,-93.85 d=0.045))"
> The's a 5km ring.  Repeat such facet queries for larger rings.  Each
> bigger circle will of course encompass the smaller circle(s) before it.  I
> suspect it's more useful to the user to see a facet count based on all
> businesses within each threshold distance, versus having counts exclude
> the one before basically.  But if you really want to do that, you'll have
> to do that part yourself by simply subtracting one facet count from the
> previous smaller ring. And to generate the filter query if they click it,
> you'd then have to have a NOT clause for the smaller ring.  Ex:
>   fq=geo:"Intersects(Circle(45.15,-93.85 d=0.09))" NOT
> geo:"Intersects(Circle(45.15,-93.85 d=0.045))"
>
> I'm aware it's a bit verbose.  In Solr 4.1 I've already committed a change
> to allow use of {!geofilt} which will make the syntax shorter, allowing
> sharing of the "pt" reference, and kilometer based distances instead of
> degrees.  I'm collaborating with Ryan McKinley on
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4242 "A better spatial query
> parser" including conversations off-list but feel free to participate via
> commenting.
>
> ~ David Smiley
>
> On 1/8/13 7:33 PM, "Erick Erickson" <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >For facets, doesn't
> >
> http://localhost:8983/solr/select?wt=json&indent=true&fl=name,store&q=*:*&;
> >facet=on
> >&facet.query={!frange l=0 u=3}geodist(store,45.15,-93.85)
> >&facet.query={!frange l=3.001 u=4}geodist(store,45.15,-93.85)
> >&facet.query={!frange l=4.001 u=5}geodist(store,45.15,-93.85)
> >
> >work (from
> >http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch#How_to_facet_by_distance)
> >
> >Although I also confess to being really unfamiliar with all things
> >geodist...
> >
> >Best
> >Erick
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch
> ><arafa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am trying to understand the new Solr 4 spatial type and what it can
> >>do. I
> >> sort of understand the old implementation, though also far from well.
> >>
> >> The use case is to have companies that has multiple offices, for which I
> >> indexed locations. I then want to do a 'radar' style ranges/facets, so I
> >> can say "show me everything in 100k, in 300k, etc". The wiki page for
> >>old
> >> implementation shows how to do it, but I am having troubles figuring
> >>this
> >> out for new implementation.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>    Alex.
> >> P.s. "Not yet possible", "wait till 4.1/5", etc are perfectly valid
> >> shortest answers for me, at this stage.
> >>
> >> Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/
> >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch
> >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at
> >> once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working.  (Anonymous  - via GTD
> >>book)
> >>
>
>

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