Hi, Funny you're answering my question as I just saw your webcast on TheServerSide earlier today and am, at this very moment, reading the preview of your "Tamming Text" book early release from manning (Chapter 5 seems to be what I'm really looking for...) .
Basically I really am a Lucene newbie and moreover an Information Retrieval profane so I got a lot of things to learn before I can pretend to touch or document anything from the spatial contrib ... Basically for now, the few things that are really important for my project : 1) Query parsing --> identifying geographic place names (the name of an administrative division or a country) , POI/location names (the name of a store for example), location categories, adjectives concerning a place, etc ... 2 ) When needed, limiting the results to only those available in a given bounding box or radius around a central location. This could be done when the result set is too large. 3) Sorting of results based on a mix of relevance and distance from an identified point that was identified in step 1). I know that the spatial contrib has something that will let me do distance sorting and BBox filtering ( 2 and 3 above )and that's what I'd really LOVE to see in action. As for query parsing I'm still reading chapter 5 so I hope It'll give me some ideas for my project. OpenNLP seems to something I could use. Anyway if anybody is interested in putting up a simple demo of how the saptial contrib can be used or even any documentation that could lead me (and others) on the tracks that would be fantastic ! :) Thanks for your help! Cheers, Alex
