Well, rather than be surprised, you could jump right and *make* it a priority, by contributing a patch :).
But before you do, you might want to look at the ongoing discussion at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2125?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12913577#action_12913577 Best Erick On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, PeterKerk <vettepa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Dennis Gearon wrote: > > > > Soooooo, the short term answer is to use a function column to query > > against? Prefereably with a bounding box, of course. :-) > > > > What do you mean by that? Calculate all locations within a certain range > (bounding box) and query on that? > I hope not, because that would be a very unfriendly solution. > > Im still surprised that this is not a bigger priority for the Solr > developers. > > I think the better solution would then be to use LocalSolr, but I dont > know: > 1. if their implementation offers the same functions as the current Solr > release and > 2. if I was to use LocalSolr I woud simply use their implementation of Solr > instead of Solr OR that I have to copy some classes to my current > deployment > of Solr > > pff :) > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Calculating-distances-in-Solr-using-longitude-latitude-tp1524297p1559728.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >