Yonik Seeley wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:22 AM, patrick o'leary <pj...@pjaol.com> wrote: > >> What spatial contributions have been contributed from this? >> I'm only seeing some query parsing / multi-threading extensions, no shapes / >> SRID's etc >> but it's giving significant, 'impression of ownership' of a lot of work >> that's been completed >> by other folks. >> > > Looks like they acknowledge building on local solr and local lucene to me: > > """SSP started out its life as a patch for Solr Spatial Search > (Solr-773) and Spatial Lucene (Lucene-1732) and extends Solr and > Lucene with hereunto missing geodetic search functions (bounding boxes > etc) while improving on the speed of the result and performance when > dealing with a large data set through better query parsing and > multi-threaded filtering. Also included are improved extensibility and > documentation.""" > > And in a way, they do "own" their plugin - their customizations, > packaging, etc (note: I haven't looked at it). And they offer support > for it - which might be attractive to some companies that need > supported geosearch now. > > It's also open source under the Apache license, so presumably we could > borrow anything we want from it. > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com > I think Patrick is obviously referring to: However, in the last 6 months support for spatial search has begun to be added to Apache Lucene and Solr, much of which has been developed here at JTeam.
"Much of which" is obviously a bit of an overstatement (to a great degree or extent) when you look at all the work thats been done. Oh well though. So it goes. Its Apache - they could package it all up, hide the code under the covers, put a notice saying some work was derived from Solr, call it Solr: geo search edition, and essentially take even more credit while adding little to nothing. I wouldn't sweat it.
