Spadez, I've had some success into using the nicely open data of GeoNames.org but that was modestly only to fetch zip-code-to-town-name and long-lat associations, search for "postal-codes".
It would be lovely that some more best practice examples are distributed on how to handle, e.g., the lon-lat uncertainty. I still do not know how I could take usefully advantage of a user-allowed-browser-geolocation which gives me lon/lat. I've seen article on how to do this with a YUI query thus far. paul Le 29 juil. 2012 à 00:54, Spadez a écrit : > I am using Solr as my main search system for my site. Currently, I am using > google to turn a place name (such as a postcode or city) into a long / lat > co-ordinate. Then I am supplying this long / lat to Solr so it can perform a > spacial search. > > I am really new to this, but I dont like my reliance on google for this. Is > it possible to import a database into Solr which linked both cities and > postcodes to a co-ordinate, and use Solr for this as well?
