> > Grant, since you too have an interest in spatial, you too could be a > developer on lucene-spatial-playground (I look forward to a better name). > Just because there are folks interested in spatial involved with Lucene/Solr > does not mean that the module needs to actually be in the Lucene/Solr's > codebase itself. I think geospatial is both fairly specialized and also only > desired by a fraction of Lucene/Solr users, particularly beyond the basic > essentials satisfied with a pair of trie doubles (LatLonPoint) and a distance > functionquery. If you consider that, then why would it be in Lucene/Solr? >
my aspirations may be high, but I think spatial+lucene/solr can be a platform to rival PostGIS -- or at the very least good option when you need good text+spatial search. (PostGIS and oracle spatial are the only options now) Some key features that would get lots of attention from geo devlopers are: * native CS-W support from solr. This is super important for GIS catalogs. Actually now required by law in the EU! * native GeoRSS and opensearch geo from solr * lucene/solr as a geotools data source -- this opens up a huge range of off-the-shelf processing The people who care about these problems and the build system and dependencies to support them are pretty distinct from lucene core. ryan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
