On 02.11.2010 14:52, Craig Taverner wrote: >> Adding neo4j spatial to the picture should enable the CMS handling geo >> data objects without adding to much complexity (I hope). > OK. I think I'm beginning to get an idea of what you want. You have a CMS, > and some of the data is geolocated, in the sense that you know what > countries it is associated with, and perhaps you even have relationships to > 'country' nodes (or other nodes) representing locations. Now you want to use > Neo4j Spatial to perform simple spatial queries on this. Your analysis is correct and brilliant. :-)
In my case, the CMS payload data itself (like HTML, Images, Videos, CSS, JS, Blogs etc.) is stored in neo4j nodes. But logging data, too, of course. > I could imagine something like: > > 'give me all countries in the specified region (bounding box) and include > the number of pages as an attribute of the result set'bute? Right now I'm using the SearchIntersectWindow class to determine which countries are needed to display within a certain global region. The countries data is loaded as a set of GeoJSON files via Javascript (using Polymaps), so neo4j spatial does only provide the country names. > I think you should either use the original shapefiles and the > existing ShapefileImporter or move to OSM data models for connected > topologies. > > A GeoJSON importer is a nice idea, but not worth the effort if you already > have shapefiles. Indeed! I ended up with using the shapefile importer, using neo4j spatial to serve geodata nodes which are then connected on-the-fly with geo-tagged CMS data. Your comments and suggestions helped me a lot, so I just wanted to say thanks again. Axel _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
