On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Jason Rutherglen wrote:
Does Geohash enable range based queries? It's unclear from the wiki
site.
yes -- if you munge the algorithm a bit, finding points within a
region is a lexographic range query.
This alteration was developed to support bounding box queries in big
table. Big table does not let you perform multiple operations on
multiple fields in a single query, so you have to figure out how to do
it with one:
http://labs.metacarta.com/blog/27.entry/geographic-queries-on-google-app-engine/
I have not worked with it yet, but it seem like it has some nice
characteristics for lucene indexes
Can we do something like this
http://code.google.com/apis/base/attrs-queries.html#LocDatQuer I
would rather see SOLR go in the direction of being compatible with
GData and GBase and invent more unique things, unless they are better
somehow.
are you just talking about the query syntax?
Yes, we should just use something that others are already doing...
