Hmm, depends, tiles indicate to me a direct correlation between the id and a map tile, which will depend upon using the right projection with the cartesian plotter
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2009, at 4:19 PM, patrick o'leary wrote: > > > Hmm, but when you say grid, to me that's just a bunch of regularly spaced > > lines.. > > Yeah, I hear you. I chose spatial tiles for the Solr patch, but spatial > grid would work too. Or map tiles/map grids. That anchors it into the > spatial world, since we're calling Lucene's spatial contrib/spatial and > Solr's Solr Spatial. > > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > >> > >> On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:51 PM, patrick o'leary wrote: > >> > >>> So Grant here's the deal behind the name. > >>> Cartesian because it's a simple x.y coordinate system > >>> Tier because there are multiple tiers, levels of resolution. > >>> > >>> If you look at it closer: > >>> - To programmers there's a quadtree implementation > >>> - To web users who use maps these are grids / tiles. > >>> - To GIS experts this is a form of multi-resolution raster-ing. > >>> - To astrophysicists these are tiers. > >>> - To the MS folks I've talked to they have quad something or other. > >>> - To math folks Cartesian levels makes sense. > >>> > >>> Can't make all the people happy all the time, > >> > >> Right, but as far as I can tell (and I've only done, say an hour of > >> research), I can't find anyone who calls them Cartesian Tiers other than > us. > >> > >> Personally, I think web users are the largest group (after all, aren't > we > >> all web users?) out there and therefore will be the most familiar with > >> either grid or tile. FWIW, I have tentatively called the Solr FieldType > to > >> support this "SpatialTileField" as in it represents a tile in the > spatial > >> sense. I'd be fine with SpatialGridField as well (GridField seems a bit > too > >> generic). > > >
