Someone pulling an Al Gore (inventing the internet) on this isn't my concern, heck you can just google for some of the class names of locallucene and see how far spread it is, what I am more concerned about
"Future versions of these patches may include support for search with regular polygons, and the introduction of distance facets, allowing Solr users to be able to filter their results based on the calculated distances." They're now 'flogging' recent and current work I and others are doing? ... not encouraging, and certainly not healthy for open source. I'm going to be brash and request that there is commitment to adding a basic Spatial feature set for distance searching (restricted by distance) & sorting to Solr's trunk by the end of December. Iterate and refactor as needed after that. There should not be any more excuses to having this code out in the cold as patches and external projects. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
