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
>

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