Re: [Neo4j] Spatial search using Lucene-spatial?

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Neubauer
Christopher, thanks for the pointers! Yes, I am mainly thinking that the only stuff required to include simple spatial work into the Lucene index implementation is to pull in the SpatialHepler equivalent, which adds the lon, lat and the CartesianPlotterField to the document (node, relationship,

[Neo4j] Spatial search using Lucene-spatial?

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Neubauer
Hi there, I just tried the examples for searching spatial with Lucene at http://develop.nydi.ch/2010/10/lucene-spatial-example/ I am wondering if this still fits into the current Lucene framework integration, so we could add spatial indexing for simple Nodes with lat/lon properties into the

Re: [Neo4j] Spatial search using Lucene-spatial?

2010-11-13 Thread Christopher Schmidt
Hi, I think Lucene provides a simple way to do distance queries. The limit is, that you can use only points (and a circle to define a distance). No interception with lines, polylines or stuff like that is possible. If you do not need it - fine... BTW: There is currently a discussion about