Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2011-01-03 Thread Lance Norskog
Great! I would suggest a new /modules for gis. It is worthwhile to have a /modules/gis/geonames for large-scale tests/demos/benchmarks, with ant scripts to download datasets and run the tests. About demos: there is a lot of GEO code out there: libraries (http://www.openmap.org/), data (geonames,

Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2011-01-03 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Dec 28, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Smiley, David W. wrote: >> Thanks for letting me know about this Rob. I think geonames is much simpler >> (and much less data) to work with than wikipedia. It's plain tab-delimited >> and I like that it inclu

Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2011-01-03 Thread David Smiley (@MITRE.org)
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Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Muir
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Smiley, David W. wrote: > Thanks for letting me know about this Rob.  I think geonames is much simpler > (and much less data) to work with than wikipedia.  It's plain tab-delimited > and I like that it includes the population.  I'll press forward with my > benc

Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2010-12-28 Thread Smiley, David W.
Thanks for letting me know about this Rob. I think geonames is much simpler (and much less data) to work with than wikipedia. It's plain tab-delimited and I like that it includes the population. I'll press forward with my benchmark module based patch. I can relatively easily switch between t

Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Muir
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Smiley, David W. wrote: > Presently, I’m working on Lucene’s benchmark contrib module to evaluate the > performance of SOLR-2155 compared to the LatLon type (i.e. a pair of lat-lon > range queries), and then I’ll work on a more efficient probably non-geohash > imp

Re: Geospatial search in Lucene/Solr

2010-12-28 Thread Smiley, David W.
(I was emailing Grant RE geospatial search and it occurred to me I should be doing this on the Lucene dev list so I've taken it there) On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: On Dec 27, 2010, at 11:52 PM, Smiley, David W. wrote: Hi Grant. I saw your latest blog post at Lucid Imagina