[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7664?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15843885#comment-15843885
]
David Smiley commented on LUCENE-7664:
--------------------------------------
+1 I believe GeoPointField also never quite got distance sorting added. I
could sense development halted once LatLonPoint started showing it was going to
win out.
Hey [~nknize] the GeoPointField was really excellent work -- the ideal geo
field that was based on an inverted index. Maybe someone out there would find
it useful who either has an old Lucene index or who wishes to port to something
else like LevelDB.
> Deprecate GeoPointField & queries
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-7664
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7664
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Fix For: master (7.0), 6.5.0
>
>
> The new dimensional points implementations for geo distance, polygon, shape
> filtering are substantially faster and creates a smaller index than the
> postings based {{GeoPointField}}. They also offer nearest neighbor search,
> which {{GeoPointField}} doesn't.
> I think we should deprecate {{GeoPointField}} and focus on the points
> implementations.
> We have still other legacy postings based geo implementations but I think we
> should keep them for now since they have functionality that points doesn't
> yet have: the ability to index a shape and search for shapes overlapping the
> indexed shapes.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
