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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by sa...@gmail.com on 2010/02/02 06:34:17 UTC

Solr and location based searches

Hi all,

We want to use Solr because of its facet based functionalities... now the  
customer want to combine searches based on facets with location based  
searches (all objects 10 miles around this particular zip)...
Is this possible in Solr or is there no way?

Thanks and best regards,
Sandro

Re: Solr and location based searches

Posted by Markus Jelsma <ma...@buyways.nl>.

Hi,


You can use three different approaches:
- Solr Spatial [1];
- Local Solr [2];
- Implement it yourself [3].

The first is promising, the latter is fun but is far less useful and powerful!


[1]: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch
[2]: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LocalSolr
[3]: http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#Dist

Cheers,

Markus Jelsma - Technisch Architect - Buyways BV
http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17
050-8536620 / 06-50258350

Re: Re: Solr and location based searches

Posted by sa...@gmail.com.

Thank guys... very helpful links and good starting points... :-)

Am 02.02.2010 10:23 schrieb Hannes Carl Meyer <ha...@googlemail.com>:
> Hi Sandro,

> it is possible but beside the technical platform you will need a good  
> data basis for example Geonames, Y! Geo etc.
> You should also check the following article by Grant Ingersoll:  
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html


> Are we talking about a global or more local approach?

> Kind Regards

> Hannes

> https://www.xing.com/profile/HannesCarl_Meyer


> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:34 AM, sandro.ruch@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,



> We want to use Solr because of its facet based functionalities... now the  
> customer want to combine searches based on facets with location based  
> searches (all objects 10 miles around this particular zip)...

> Is this possible in Solr or is there no way?



> Thanks and best regards,

> Sandro

Re: Solr and location based searches

Posted by Hannes Carl Meyer <ha...@googlemail.com>.

Hi Sandro,

it is possible but beside the technical platform you will need a good data
basis for example Geonames, Y! Geo etc.
You should also check the following article by Grant Ingersoll:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html

Are we talking about a global or more local approach?

Kind Regards

Hannes

https://www.xing.com/profile/HannesCarl_Meyer

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:34 AM, <sa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We want to use Solr because of its facet based functionalities... now the
> customer want to combine searches based on facets with location based
> searches (all objects 10 miles around this particular zip)...
> Is this possible in Solr or is there no way?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Sandro
>