Hi Grant, Thanks for the info and your point is well taken. I should have been clearer that I have no intention of this project being a long-term solution for spatial search in Solr - rather I was looking to build a rough and ready solution that gives some basic spatial search capabilities to tide us over until the real deal is available in Solr 1.5. That being said, I'd love to be of use in the official spatial efforts, so I'll be sure to take a look at the related tickets and see if there is anywhere I can help out.
Mat On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 19:36, Grant Ingersoll <gsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mat, > > This is an area of active work in Solr right now (see SOLR-773 in JIRA for > the top level tracking issue). Obviously you can do as you wish, but it > would be really great if you chipped in on making the capabilities in Solr > better (we've already added in the Lucene spatial jar, a bunch of distance > functions, sort by functions and a few spatial field types) instead of doing > something separate. > > In other words, spatial support is going to be baked into Solr 1.5, riding on > the tail of a a whole slew of features that make Solr even more capable. See > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch for more details. > > Cheers, > Grant > > On Dec 30, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Mat Brown wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been working on a small Solr plugin to expose the basic >> functionality of lucene-spatial as unobtrusively as possible. I've got >> a basic implementation up and passing tests, and I was hoping to get >> some feedback on it. Though I've coded against Lucene for a production >> app in the past, this is my first time writing code for Solr's plugin >> API, so I could easily be entirely on the wrong track. >> >> Honest (even brutal!) feedback would be very much appreciated: >> >> http://github.com/outoftime/solr-spatial >> >> Thanks much, >> Mat >> >> P.S. I definitely don't want to step on anyone's toes with the name - >> if "solr-spatial" is already in use, or reserved for a future official >> contrib for Solr, let me know and I'll come up with something else! > >
