Re: [CODE4LIB] Storing lat / long

2012-06-28 Thread Mike Graves
As has already been mentioned, this totally depends on what you want to do with it. In our digital repository we have a policy of storing points (and polygons) as WKT. It's a well documented standard format that is supported by most GIS libraries. Since we're not doing any GIS queries directly

Re: [CODE4LIB] What does my solr index have against carbon dioxide?

2011-05-27 Thread Mike Graves
You'll probably get a better response from solr-users. In any case, posting the relevant fieldtype definition from your schema.xml and, for good measure, the results of a query with debugQuery on would be helpful. Off the top of my head, I'd say it may be a combination of not using index time

Re: [CODE4LIB] If you were starting over, what would you learn and how would you do it?

2011-05-06 Thread Mike Graves
Volunteer work can often be a good way to build your skill set on real world problems without having to quit your day job. Since they aren't paying gigs they usually are happy with entry level programmers. I've used idealist.org in the past to find work. M On 05/06/2011 03:07 PM, Ceci Land