I woudn't do it in th browser. Solr itself can give you both the buildings and the distance. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch
Dennis Gearon Signature Warning ---------------- EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Sun, 9/19/10, PeterKerk <vettepa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: PeterKerk <vettepa...@hotmail.com> > Subject: Calculating distances in Solr using longitude latitude > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 8:04 AM > > I want users to be able to filter buildings in my database, > by enerting a > random zipcode with a certain distance around it (in > kilometers). > e.g.: 90210 with a radius of 50kilometer. > > The longitude and latitude of a specific building are in > the database. > When the user searches on a zipcode, I can get the > respective longitude and > latitude from Google Maps. > > Then in Solr I want to return all buildings from my > database that are in the > radius of the 50km with the entered zipcode as the > center... > > I checked this url for calculation, but not sure if there's > any best > practice on doing this... > http://briancray.com/2009/04/01/how-to-calculate-the-distance-between-two-addresses-with-javascript-and-google-maps-api/ > > Any examples on how to do this? > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Calculating-distances-in-Solr-using-longitude-latitude-tp1524297p1524297.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
