Good point. Copying to a separate field that applied synonyms could help.

Filtering out the original countries could be tricky. The Javadoc mentiones a 
keepOrig flag, but the Solr docs do not. If you could set keepOrig=false, that 
would do the trick.

wunder

On Aug 7, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Erick Erickson wrote:

> Walter:
> 
> Oooh, nice! One could even use a copyField if one wanted to
> keep them separate...
> 
> Erick
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Walter Underwood 
> <wun...@wunderwood.org>wrote:
> 
>> Would synonyms help? If you generate the query terms for the continents,
>> you could do something like this:
>> 
>> usa => continent-na
>> canada => continent-na
>> germany => continent-europe
>> 
>> und so weiter.
>> 
>> wunder
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:18 AM, Christian Köhler - ZFMK wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 05.08.2013 15:52, schrieb Jack Krupansky:
>>>> You can write a brute force JavaScript script using the StatelessScript
>>>> update processor that hard-codes the mapping.
>>> 
>>> I'll probably do something like this. Unfortunately I have no influence
>>> on the original db itself, so I have fix this in solr.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Chris
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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