GeoCouch 0.0.1 doesn't solve your problem, only the current code base I have does. I'll to put some basic documentation together asap, and drop you a mail with these instructions (off-list).
Cheers, Volker Tim Burgess wrote: >>> >>> I suspect I may be misunderstanding what you are trying to do. If you >>> want to query for keys from the above view such that: a < doc.lat < b >>> and x < doc.lng < y, then I think you can do just that: >>> >>> startkey = [a, x] >>> endkey = [b, y] >>> > > Thanks guys. Yes, using arrays clearly wasn't doing the job after a little > bit of experimentation - I thought there might have been some 'trick' I was > missing. > > Volker, if you could point me to your code I would like to try it out. This > is a 'must have' thing for me as without it, it's pretty much impossible to > use couchdb for my app. Yes, I could do two queries from the browser but > paying for unwanted data across the wire and putting extra load on the > browser is not a solution for me. > > Bounding box is all I need and I could scrape by without anything else > for the time being so I'd be happy to try GeoCouch. The link to Paul Davis' > external2 couchdb branch from the link you provided > goes nowhere on github by the way. > > Cheers, Tim > > > >> This will also bring back rows with eg the key [b, w] which is outside >> the wanted range. >> >> The simple answer is to have two maps: one by lat and one by long, and >> query them both, intersecting to find the rows in both queries (or >> more simply to just query for a longitude range and filter the results >> by lattitude.) This is not very efficient and hence there are >> dedicated strategies for geo indexing. >> >> GeoCouch is probably the best solution, or you could do the work to >> integrate another geographic indexer. Adding alternate indexers to >> CouchDB is about as simple as can be, so don't be put off by the idea. >> >>> Is that what you want? >>> >>> >>> + seth >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Anderson >> http://jchrisa.net >> http://couch.io > > Tim Burgess > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Kyoto Podcast - Glimpses of Japan > www.kyotopodcast.jp <http://www.kyotopodcast.jp> > > >
