On IRC you said you found out the answers before I came along. For everyone else’s benefit:
* Solr’s “documentation” is essentially the “Solr Reference Guide”. Only look at the wiki as a secondary source. * See “location_rpt” in the example schema.xml which supports multi-valued spatial data. It’s the evolution of SOLR-2155. * For clustering, see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialClustering ~ David Smiley Freelance Apache Lucene/Solr Search Consultant/Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Chris Atkinson <chrisa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading up a lot on what David has written about GeoHash fields > and would like to use them. > > I'm trying to create a nice way to display cluster counts of geo points on > a google map. It's naturally not going to be possible to send 40k marker > information over the wire to cluster... so figured GeoHash would be > perfect. > > I'm running Solr 4.5. I've seen this.. > https://github.com/dsmiley/SOLR-2155 > Would this be what I use? It looks like it's really old, and I noticed that > there is now a "solr.GeoHash" core field... > > However, if I check the documentation at this page > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearchDev > > Solr includes a the field type "solr.GeoHashField" but it unfortunately > > doesn't realize any of the intrinsic properties of the geohash to its > > advantage. *You shouldn't use it.* Instead, check out > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch#SOLR-2155. The main feature is > > multi-valued field support. > > Does this mean that there isn't any way to use GeoHash with my version of > Solr? > > Should I just implement a multi value field andadd all of the multi value > fields myself? > > (Also, can you confirm that for doing clustering, I'm on the right track > for using GeoHash. I don't need anything perfect. I just want to be able to > break up the markers into groups). > > Thanks >
