Grant, How could i stub this out not being a java guy? What is needed in order to do this?
Licensing is always going to be an issue with JTS which is why I am interested in the project SIS sitting in incubation right now. I'm willing to put forth the effort if I had a little direction on how to implement it from the peanut gallery ;-) Adam On Feb 9, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > The show stopper for JTS is it's license, unfortunately. Otherwise, I think > it would be done already! We could, since it's LGPL, make it an optional > dependency, assuming someone can stub it out. > > On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Adam Estrada wrote: > >> I just came across a ~nudge post over in the SIS list on what the status is >> for that project. This got me looking more in to spatial mods with Solr4.0. >> I found this enhancement in Jira. >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155. In this issue, David >> mentions that he's already integrated JTS in to Solr4.0 for querying on >> polygons stored as WKT. >> >> It's relatively easy to get WKT strings in to Solr but does the Field type >> exist yet? Is there a patch or something that I can test out? >> >> Here's how I would do it using GDAL/OGR and the already existing csv update >> handler. http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html >> >> ogr2ogr -f CSV output.csv input.shp -lco GEOMETRY=AS_WKT >> This converts a shapefile to a csv with the geometries in tact in the form >> of WKT. You can then get the data in to Solr by running the following >> command. >> curl >> "http://localhost:8983/solr/update/csv?commit=true&separator=%2C&fieldnames=id,attr1,attr2,attr3,geom&stream.file=C:\tmp\output.csv&overwrite=true&stream.contentType=text/plain;charset=utf-8"; >> There are lots of flavors of geometries so I suspect that this will be a >> daunting task but because JTS recognizes each geometry type it should be >> possible to work with them. >> Does anyone know of a patch or even when this functionality might be >> included in to Solr4.0? I need to query for polygons ;-) >> Thanks, >> Adam >> >> >> > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com/ >
