On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Chris Male wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It really should say: Added Geospatial Support, as it was non-existent in 
> Solr before.
> 
> Most of the work for adding in spatial in Solr consisted of improving things 
> in Solr to make it easy to leverage the one spatial feature we really added: 
> distance based functions and parsing support.  Everything else was generally 
> useful things: sorting by function, poly fields, etc.  I started on tier 
> support, but dropped it when I realized it was broken beyond repair.  The 
> Solr stuff uses, IMO, the stuff in Lucene that works and ignores the rest.  I 
> seem to recall Chris had said that once I got done w/ the Solr stuff he would 
> do the modules work, but it hasn't happened yet.
> 
> I'd say in 3.2, since it sounds like Chris did at least deprecate 
> contrib/spatial, that we work to get all of this resolved:  spatial -> 
> modules, function queries -> modules.  Naturally we should do it on trunk, 
> too.
> 
> Just note that I didn't not do it out of laziness.  Actually pushing stuff 
> into the module isn't easy since there isn't much that can be saved from 
> contrib, and Solr's spatial code are predominately bound to function queries, 
> which themselves are very coupled to Solr and that there wasn't anything like 
> a consensus that they should be moved.

Agreed, it's not a small task.
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