On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Paul Elschot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 08 November 2010 20:03:59 Ryan McKinley wrote: >> Any updates/progress with this? >> >> I'm looking at ways to implement an RTree with lucene -- and this >> discussion seems relevant > > Did you consider merging the bits of each dimension into a NumericField? > > For example: one dimension a0 a1 .. an > and a second dimension b0 b1 .. bn > into a0 b0 a1 b1 .. an bn > and then index this number as a NumericField. >
Something like the geohash algorithm but with n dimensions? The linking work that Mark discussed seems nice since it would give faster access to navigating the tree -- finding N nearest neigbhors etc... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
