Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr (developerWorks) [LWN.net]

developerWorks has posted a lengthy and detailed article on the implementation of spatial searches with the Lucene and Solr libraries. "I'll start with a brief review of some key Lucene concepts, leaving the deeper details to the reader to research. Next, I'll cover some of the basic concepts of geospatial search. GIS is a large field that could easily consume this entire article and many more, so I will instead focus on some basic concepts that should be fairly intuitive given the need to find services, people, and other items of interest on a daily basis. I'll round out the article with some discussion of the approaches available for indexing and searching spatial information using Lucene and Solr. I'll ground these concepts in a real, albeit simple, example using data from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project."

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Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr (developerWorks)

Posted Jan 27, 2010 10:00 UTC (Wed) by leonmcnight (guest, #63231) [Link]

There's a nice talk on this posted on this Lucid Imagination Website, http://www.lucidimagination.com/How-We-Can-Help/webinar-f...

Cheers
Leon