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On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:31 AM, "David Smiley (Commented) (JIRA)" 
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> David Smiley commented on SOLR-2155:
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> Harley,
>  Apparently I haven't been clear because this question does come up often, 
> and I sympathize with you all because the comments on this issue are 
> ridiculously long.  What I should have done and still can do is add info to 
> the Solr wiki.  Ever since ~September 2011, you no longer need to patch Solr 
> and you can use any 3x release.  The specific comment with further info 
> announcing this is:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155?focusedCommentId=13117350&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13117350
> If you look at the attachments to the issue, you'll notice the latest version 
> is 1.0.3.
> 
> When Solr 3.6 comes out (soon!), my co-author and I will write an online 
> addendum to discuss the changes in Solr 3.5 & Solr 3.6 that affect the 
> content of the book, or are interesting things that we would have written 
> about if we were still writing it.  I'll add a clarification to the existing 
> info box on 144 mentioning SOLR-2155 that this feature is available in plugin 
> form to 3x without patching Solr.
> 
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>> Geospatial search using geohash prefixes
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>> 
>>                Key: SOLR-2155
>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155
>>            Project: Solr
>>         Issue Type: Improvement
>>           Reporter: David Smiley
>>        Attachments: GeoHashPrefixFilter.patch, GeoHashPrefixFilter.patch, 
>> GeoHashPrefixFilter.patch, 
>> SOLR-2155_GeoHashPrefixFilter_with_sorting_no_poly.patch, 
>> SOLR.2155.p3.patch, SOLR.2155.p3tests.patch, Solr2155-1.0.2-project.zip, 
>> Solr2155-1.0.3-project.zip, Solr2155-for-1.0.2-3.x-port.patch
>> 
>> 
>> There currently isn't a solution in Solr for doing geospatial filtering on 
>> documents that have a variable number of points.  This scenario occurs when 
>> there is location extraction (i.e. via a "gazateer") occurring on free text. 
>>  None, one, or many geospatial locations might be extracted from any given 
>> document and users want to limit their search results to those occurring in 
>> a user-specified area.
>> I've implemented this by furthering the GeoHash based work in Lucene/Solr 
>> with a geohash prefix based filter.  A geohash refers to a lat-lon box on 
>> the earth.  Each successive character added further subdivides the box into 
>> a 4x8 (or 8x4 depending on the even/odd length of the geohash) grid.  The 
>> first step in this scheme is figuring out which geohash grid squares cover 
>> the user's search query.  I've added various extra methods to GeoHashUtils 
>> (and added tests) to assist in this purpose.  The next step is an actual 
>> Lucene Filter, GeoHashPrefixFilter, that uses these geohash prefixes in 
>> TermsEnum.seek() to skip to relevant grid squares in the index.  Once a 
>> matching geohash grid is found, the points therein are compared against the 
>> user's query to see if it matches.  I created an abstraction GeoShape 
>> extended by subclasses named PointDistance... and CartesianBox.... to 
>> support different queried shapes so that the filter need not care about 
>> these details.
>> This work was presented at LuceneRevolution in Boston on October 8th.
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