I am successfully able to search for "nearbys" given a longitude and a
latitude. The basic summary of how I do this is that I add 1000 to the
long/lat values and use a RangeFilter in my query.
In my display results, I display the results ordered by distance from the
original long/lat. What I
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: Cc: spamsucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Subject: Re: Sorting on distance from a long/lat
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: Hi,
:
: I apologize if this is slightly off topic. I have not implemented this, but
: the idea came to me after reading another post about measuring distance in
: lucene. It may be completely impr
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> : From: Dennis Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> : To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> : Cc: spamsucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> : Subject: Re: Sorting on distance from a long/lat
> :
> : Hi,
> :
> : I apologize if this is sligh
Hi,
I apologize if this is slightly off topic. I have not implemented this, but
the idea came to me after reading another post about measuring distance in
lucene. It may be completely impractical, however it seems it COULD work at
least if the area to be indexed could be constrained.
What if