Axel, nice it worked out for you! Would be great if you could write up a small blog or so on this, and give us some feedback on what to improve to make the component more usable. WDYT?
Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Axel Morgner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02.11.2010 14:52, Craig Taverner wrote: >>> Adding neo4j spatial to the picture should enable the CMS handling geo >>> data objects without adding to much complexity (I hope). >> OK. I think I'm beginning to get an idea of what you want. You have a CMS, >> and some of the data is geolocated, in the sense that you know what >> countries it is associated with, and perhaps you even have relationships to >> 'country' nodes (or other nodes) representing locations. Now you want to use >> Neo4j Spatial to perform simple spatial queries on this. > Your analysis is correct and brilliant. :-) > > In my case, the CMS payload data itself (like HTML, Images, Videos, CSS, > JS, Blogs etc.) is stored in neo4j nodes. But logging data, too, of course. > >> I could imagine something like: >> >> 'give me all countries in the specified region (bounding box) and include >> the number of pages as an attribute of the result set'bute? > Right now I'm using the SearchIntersectWindow class to determine which > countries are needed to display within a certain global region. The > countries data is loaded as a set of GeoJSON files via Javascript (using > Polymaps), so neo4j spatial does only provide the country names. > >> I think you should either use the original shapefiles and the >> existing ShapefileImporter or move to OSM data models for connected >> topologies. >> >> A GeoJSON importer is a nice idea, but not worth the effort if you already >> have shapefiles. > Indeed! I ended up with using the shapefile importer, using neo4j > spatial to serve geodata nodes which are then connected on-the-fly with > geo-tagged CMS data. > > Your comments and suggestions helped me a lot, so I just wanted to say > thanks again. > > Axel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
