Patrick's original version of localluce included geotools -- to make
it Apache license compatible we took that out and make the distance
calculations pluggable.
The hardcoded miles part should be changeable -- feel free to post any
patches and we can make it a better solution.
best
ryan
On Apr 22, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Wouter Heijke wrote:
> The amount of replies and the state of the code make me think making
> my
> own distance filter using a real GIS solution like geotools is the
> way to
> go.
> I wonder anyway if GIS code should be in any Lucene package..
>
> Wouter
>
>> Yeah it's hard coded to use miles, 5 years in the US gets to you..
>> But the functionality doesn't change radius is double so you just
>> need to
>> convert km to miles
>> for the DistanceQueryBuilder and just convert back from miles to km
>> to
>> display.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Wouter Heijke <wheijke@xs4all.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm working on local search functionality and am about to use the
>>> spatial
>>> code in contrib.
>>> I managed to have a proof of concept running using
>>> LatLongDistanceFilter.
>>> The only problem I have with this filter is that it is hardcoded
>>> to use
>>> Miles!
>>>
>>> Basically my question is what are the plans for the spatial code?
>>> Is it
>>> going to stay the way it is?
>>>
>>> Wouter
>>>
>
>
>
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