Use a filter query? See the {!geofilt} stuff on the wiki page. That gives you
your filter to restrict down your result set, then you can sort by exact
distance to get your sort of just those docs that make it through the filter.
On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Eric Grobler wrote:
> Hi Erick,
>
> Thanks I saw that example, but I am trying to sort by distance AND specify
> the max distance in 1 query.
>
> The reason is:
> running bbox on 2 million documents with a 20km distance takes only 200ms.
> Sorting 2 million documents by distance takes over 1.5 seconds!
>
> So it will be much faster for solr to first filter the 20km documents and
> then to sort them.
>
> Regards
> Ericz
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Further down that very page <G>...
>>
>> Here's an example of sorting by distance ascending:
>>
>> -
>>
>> ...&q=*:*&sfield=store&pt=45.15,-93.85&sort=geodist()
>> asc<
>> http://localhost:8983/solr/select?wt=json&indent=true&fl=name,store&q=*:*&sfield=store&pt=45.15,-93.85&sort=geodist()%20asc
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The key is just the &sort=geodist(), I'm pretty sure that's independent of
>> the bbox, but
>> I could be wrong.
>>
>> Best
>> Erick
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Eric Grobler <impalah...@googlemail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch
>>> there is an example of a bbox filter and a geodist function.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to do a bbox filter and sort by distance - combine the
>> two?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ericz
>>>
>>
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