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Lance Norskog commented on SOLR-2155:
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I've reread the patch a few times and I understand it better now, and yes there
should be no equator/prime meridian problems. I retract any overt or implied
criticism.
bq. First of all, I'm re-using the existing geohash field support in Solr which
indexes the lat-lons as actual geohashes (i.e. the character representation),
not in a bitwise fashion. But that doesn't really matter - it would be a
worthwhile optimization to index them in that fashion as it would be more
compact.
Using the canonical geohash gives facet values that can be copy&pasted with
other software. Thinking again, this is a great feature. Would it be worth
optimizing geohash with a Trie version? Trie fields (can be made to) show up
correctly in facets.
And thank you for the word
[gazateer|http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gazateer|.
About unit tests: I've stumbled so many times with floating point that I only
trust real-world data. A good unit test would be indexing a
[gazateer|http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gazateer| of world data
and randomly comparing points. OpenStreetMaps or Wikipedia locations for
example.
> Geospatial search using geohash prefixes
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>
> Key: SOLR-2155
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: David Smiley
> Attachments: GeoHashPrefixFilter.patch
>
>
> There currently isn't a solution in Solr for doing geospatial filtering on
> documents that have a variable number of points. This scenario occurs when
> there is location extraction (i.e. via a "gazateer") occurring on free text.
> None, one, or many geospatial locations might be extracted from any given
> document and users want to limit their search results to those occurring in a
> user-specified area.
> I've implemented this by furthering the GeoHash based work in Lucene/Solr
> with a geohash prefix based filter. A geohash refers to a lat-lon box on the
> earth. Each successive character added further subdivides the box into a 4x8
> (or 8x4 depending on the even/odd length of the geohash) grid. The first
> step in this scheme is figuring out which geohash grid squares cover the
> user's search query. I've added various extra methods to GeoHashUtils (and
> added tests) to assist in this purpose. The next step is an actual Lucene
> Filter, GeoHashPrefixFilter, that uses these geohash prefixes in
> TermsEnum.seek() to skip to relevant grid squares in the index. Once a
> matching geohash grid is found, the points therein are compared against the
> user's query to see if it matches. I created an abstraction GeoShape
> extended by subclasses named PointDistance... and CartesianBox.... to support
> different queried shapes so that the filter need not care about these details.
> This work was presented at LuceneRevolution in Boston on October 8th.
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