Hi Craig, I am wondering if there is any new development regarding cypher supporting spatial queries.
Thanks, Alireza On Friday, October 17, 2014 at 3:02:22 PM UTC+2, Craig Taverner wrote: > > Hi Alireza, > > Right now there is only one option, the IndexProvider implementation, > which allows you to view the spatial index as an index in cypher, and > access it using the 'START n=node:A(B)' syntax, where 'A' is your index > name and 'B' contains your query. This only allows a limited set of > possible queries. > > Interestingly one of the best descriptions of this support was given by > Jim Biard in Stack Overflow at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24548819/neo4j-spatial-contain-search. > I welcome to you read through that. > > Our own plans to add spatial functionality to Cypher will be quite > different, based more on the newer 'Schema Index' approach in 2.x, and > allowing spatial functions in the cypher predicates themselves (in the > WHERE clauses). This should be more intuitive, but ill not be available for > some time. This support will be part of an official neo4j release and as > such have documentation included in the normal neo4j documentation. > > The documentation for the older spatial library is a bit scattered > unfortunately. And I think Jim's answer looked like a particularly > comprehensive answer to me. > > Regards, Craig > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Alireza Rezaei Mahdiraji < > alire...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> I would like to know how much of spatial neo4j queries are expressible >> using Cypher? >> Is there any documentation of this? >> >> Thanks, >> Alireza >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Neo4j" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to neo4j+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
