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Nicholas Knize commented on LUCENE-6997:
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Thanks for clearing that up [~thetaphi]!

Then it boils down to the value of having a spatial module for the simple use 
case that users don't have to worry about dependency management. If there's 
agreement in having that value then these classes should go into that package. 
If not, then either a. spatial3d could be refactored back to the spatial module 
(since JTS license is no longer an issue), or b. the GeoUtils classes go into 
spatial3d (renaming still seems appropriate) and the Lucene Query and Field 
classes go into the spatial module.

I'm open to thoughts or other ideas.

> Graduate GeoUtils and postings based GeoPointField from sandbox...
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-6997
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6997
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Nicholas Knize
>
> {{GeoPointField}} is a lightweight dependency-free postings based geo field 
> currently in sandbox. It has evolved into a very fast lightweight geo option 
> that heavily leverages the optimized performance of the postings structure. 
> It was originally intended to graduate to core but this does not seem 
> appropriate given the variety of "built on postings" term encoding options 
> (e.g., see LUCENE-6930).  
> Additionally, the {{Geo*Utils}} classes are dependency free lightweight 
> relational approximation utilities used by both {{GeoPointField}} and the BKD 
> based {{LatLonField}} and can also be applied to benefit the lucene-spatial 
> module.
> These classes have been evolving and baking for some time and are at a 
> maturity level qualifying for promotion from sandbox. This will allow support 
> for experimental encoding methods with (minimal) backwards compatibility - 
> something sandbox does not allow.
> Since GeoPoint classes are dependency free, all GeoPointField and support and 
> utility classes currently in sandbox would be promoted to the spatial3d 
> package. (possibly a separate issue to rename spatial3d to spatialcore or 
> spatiallite?) Such that for basic lightweight Geo support one would only need 
> a handful of lucene jars. By simply adding the lucene-spatial module and its 
> dependency jars users can obtain more advanced geospatial support (heatmap 
> facets, full shape relations, etc).



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