On Apr 3, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: > In the days of sub-projects, I would have proposed that option, but > now I see two options: > > A. Work on spatial lucene outside of apache -- perhaps osgeo or even > just github. (would need a different name) > B. Allow JTS compile-time dependency in lucene, and move spatial > contrib to a real module
It took some convincing by Ryan but I've come around to "A" -- a separate project that can be included just as say Carrot2 or Tika is today. Lucene/Solr can stick with the basics of geospatial (index points, filter point-distance or box, distance sort) that satisfy the majority of user needs. Anything else can be tossed, allowing Lucene/Solr to be more focused on its core capabilities. For more performant and rich geospatial features, users can get this proposed external project that is designed to easily work with Lucene/Solr. It would be good for this project to be featured prominently somehow; the wiki pages should be sufficient. ~ David Smiley Author: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
