Nice! Do you have a concise description of how you altered htdig & htsearch to store/query the information?
Thanks. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrew Daviel wrote: > > Some tima ago (a year, probably) I posted a message about modifying > ht://Dig to do a geographic search. At the time there was some interest > expressed. > > The original modifications were against an earlier tarball - 3.1.5 I > think. I intended to rework the modifications against the CVS version, and > it has taken rather a long time. I finally did it in October/November last > year. I updated the patch last month and everything still compiles and > runs. > > Essentially there are 3 bits of code that were added: > - code in htsearch to parse geotags from HTML - META statements with > position information. This could be extended to parse similar metadata in HTML or > XML > - code in htdig to store position data for documents, to compute a > "search distance", search ordered by distance, graphical input and output of > search location > - code in htsearch to restrict searches to certain geographic regions, or > pages with geotags, in order to search for geographically-enabled pages in > a much larger body of regular pages > > The modifications are done with configuration elements such that the > normal text-based search of ht://Dig is unaffected > > The modifications are described and patch file available from > http://andrew.triumf.ca/htdig/mods/ > A demonstration set of data (pages for international airports with > latitude/longitude information) is included > > There are also a couple of modifications associated with trying to index > non-text media (splitting max_doc_size between text and e.g. movies), and > a couple of other minor changes (adding an HTTP/1.1 range > request to retrieve partial documents, instead of asking for the whole > thing then dropping the connection) > > > The site geotags.com is still using the old version. There is some > problem with indexing a larger set of pages that seems to be fixed in the > 3.2 release. An upgrade is planned ... > > Andrew Daviel > TRIUMF > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > ht://Dig Developer mailing list: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev > Neal Richter Knowledgebase Developer RightNow Technologies, Inc. Customer Service for Every Web Site Office: 406-522-1485 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
