How to do Spatial Search with Solr?

[Savannah Beckett <sa...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,
  I am using nutch to do the crawling and solr to do the searching.  The index 
has City and State.  I want to able to get all nearby cities by entering city 
name.  e.g. when I type New York, I want to get the following as facet:

New York, NY (1905) 
Brooklyn, NY (89) 
Jersey City, NJ (55) 
New York City, NY (34) 
Montclair, NJ (25) 

How do I do that?  More importantly, where do I get all the latitute and 
longitude data for all cities?  

Thanks.



      

Re: How to do Spatial Search with Solr?

["Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Hi Savannah,

Check out the patches I just threw up for SOLR-2073, SOLR-2074, SOLR-2075, SOLR-2076 and SOLR-2077.

There's code in there to deal with Geonames.org data. There's more patches coming so hopefully it will be clearer as I add them. Thanks to W. Quach for leading the charge on these patches!

Cheers,
Chris


On 8/22/10 11:21 PM, "Savannah Beckett" <sa...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,
  I am using nutch to do the crawling and solr to do the searching.  The index
has City and State.  I want to able to get all nearby cities by entering city
name.  e.g. when I type New York, I want to get the following as facet:

New York, NY (1905)
Brooklyn, NY (89)
Jersey City, NJ (55)
New York City, NY (34)
Montclair, NJ (25)

How do I do that?  More importantly, where do I get all the latitute and
longitude data for all cities?

Thanks.







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