Have you looked at the Spatial extensions for Solr? If you are indexing Lat/Lon along with your documents, you can compute the distance from the origin & use that distance as one of the boost factors to affect the score. Typically, use cases around that combine the geo score with other factors as a pure sort by geo score might not give you the relevant results.
e.g. typing to search for "sushi restaurants" near Santa Monica, CA - you might not want "thai restaurants" that are closest to you. (Local Search use case) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Spatial+Search Thanks, -- *Sameer Maggon* www.measuredsearch.com <http://measuredsearch.com/> Fully Managed Solr-as-a-Service | Solr Consulting | Solr Support On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:18 AM, William Bell <billnb...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://lucidworks.com/blog/solr-suggester/ > > > Wondering if anyone has uses these new techniques with a boost on > geodist() inverted? So the rows that get returned that are closest > need to come back first. > > > We are still using Edge Grams since we have not figured out how to > boost the results on geo spatial. > > > Anyone have thoughts? > > > > > -- > Bill Bell > billnb...@gmail.com > cell 720-256-8076 >
