So here's my use case: say that you have 50 points, with _different_ radii.
A new point is added and I want to check, is this point within any of the other 50 circles. I can't do just a search for a distance, because there's no one distance to search for. Does that make sense? On Tuesday, 1 April 2014 04:46:17 UTC+11, InquiringMind wrote: > > It's my impression, and indeed experience, that searching a distance from > a geo_point means that the distance is a radius, and therefore the search > is a circular shape. No need for an explicit shape: A circle is nothing > more than a distance from a point. > > Regards, > Brian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2a24cfc4-6946-4ff7-a5b6-cb6078e080f7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
