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Bill Bell commented on SOLR-2125: --------------------------------- Tow good articles: http://janmatuschek.de/LatitudeLongitudeBoundingCoordinates - Pole and good pictures http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238260/how-to-calculate-the-bounding-box-for-a-given-lat-lng-location - Why Sphere is only good for 10KM distances. > Spatial filter is not accurate > ------------------------------ > > Key: SOLR-2125 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2125 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Build > Affects Versions: 1.5 > Reporter: Bill Bell > Assignee: Grant Ingersoll > > The calculations of distance appears to be off. > Note: "The radius of the sphere to be used when calculating distances on a > sphere (i.e. haversine). Default is the Earth's mean radius in kilometers > (see org.apache.solr.search.function.distance.Constants.EARTH_MEAN_RADIUS_KM) > which is set to 3,958.761458084784856. Most applications will not need to set > this." > The radius of the earth in KM is 6371.009 km (≈3958.761 mi). > Also filtering distance appears to be off - example data: > 45.17614,-93.87341 to 44.9369054,-91.3929348 Approx 137 miles Google. 169 > miles = 220 kilometers > http://....../solr/select?fl=*,score&start=0&rows=10&q={!sfilt%20fl=store_lat_lon}&qt=standard&pt=44.9369054,-91.3929348&d=280&sort=dist(2,store,vector(44.9369054,-91.3929348)) > asc > Nothing shows. d=285 shows results. This is off by a lot. > Bill -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org