[OT] Webinar on spatial search using Lucene and Solr

[Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>]

From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere:
> Building Local/Geo-Search
> with Apache Lucene and Solr
 
Join us for a free webinar hosted by TechTarget / TheServerSide.com
> Wednesday, November 18th 2009
> 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST
 
Click here to sign up
> http://theserversidecom.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1257457967_42.html&asrc=CL_PRM_Lucid_11_18_09_c&li=252934
 
With new advances in the flexibility and customizability of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, the ubiquity of location-aware devices and vast amounts of spatial data, tremendous opportunities open up to deliver more powerful and effective geo-aware search results.
 
We'll hear from Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the Apache Lucene PMC, for an in-depth technical workshop on the potential and application of the newly released Lucene and Solr geo-search functions. Grant will be joined by thought leaders: Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS and Apache Lucene PMC member; and Sameer Maggon, of AT&T Interactive, which manages and delivers online and mobile advertising products across AT&T's media platforms.
 
> Features and benefits of using spatial data in a search engine 
> > Representing and leveraging spatial data in Lucene to empower Local Search 
> > Spatial search in action, a peek at Voyager GIS, a tool to index and search geographic data 
> > How AT&T Interactive uses Solr/Lucene to power local search at YP.com
 
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> http://theserversidecom.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1257457967_42.html&asrc=CL_PRM_Lucid_11_18_09_c&li=252934

> About the presenters:
 
Grant Ingersoll
> Co-founder of Lucid Imagination
> Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination, is a published expert in search and Natural Language Processing, with many articles published on Lucene, Solr, findability, relevance, and is co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning project. Grant's the author of the forthcoming book "Taming Text", from Manning publications.
 
Ryan McKinley
> Co-founder of Voyager GIS
> Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS, works with technology to help find, share, and distribute information. He has built many sites using solr, including: ludb.clui.org andwww.digitalcommonwealth.org. He was a partner at Squid Labs and co-founded www.instructables.com. Ryan is a member of Lucid Imagination's Technical Advisory Board.
 
Sameer Maggon
> AT&T Interactive
> Sameer Maggon leads the Search Engineering Team at AT&T Interactive. He helped the company launch YP.com that uses Solr underneath. Before joining AT&T Interactive, he worked with Siderean (http://www.siderean.com) working on an enterprise search and navigation product that used Lucene and was ultimately responsible for delivering the technology behind their new product. Sameer has been been an active Lucene user since 2001.
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