Grant,

> Since the geo talk is up in the air, perhaps you'd like to do a
> generic talk on geo search using Lucene.  This would cover Trie +
> contrib/spatial.

Maybe Ryan is also there, and then we can do it together. But I could talk
about it, too (I should prepare some examples before and try to completely
understand LocalLucene). The Solr part is nothing for me, I do more hardcore
Lucene.

NumericRangeQuery is not only geographical search... So it would also cover
other directions: Things I can do with Lucene additionally to full text
search, that could be done before only with RDBMS and/or PostGIS...: Do full
text search with scoring and so on in addition to filter my products by
price and availability in shops at specific geographic regions; newspaper
articles about Arnold and national bankruptcy *g* from a datetime range
sorted by article size,... (we know all possibilities we have now by
numeric/geo search).

Uwe

> On Jul 14, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> 
> >> : -. Geo-spatial search with Lucene and Solr (Ryan?)  (30 mins)
> >>
> >> ...neither yonik, mark, or ryan have edited the wiki, or replied to
> >> this
> >> thread, are they on board?
> >>
> >> FWIW: It would also probably make sense to have 1 or 2 "backup" talks
> >> ready in case anything goes wrong.  (ie: I can give my solr plugins
> >> talk
> >> if needed, i'm sure some other people who are planning on coming have
> >> existing talks they could also polish/update on short notice)
> >
> > The TrieRange talk is also available for the meetup :-)
> >
> >> : have a "business" talk, but don't see where to fit it.  Also,
> >> some talks
> >> I
> >> : featured in the Meetup.  The Meetup is free and is at night (likely
> >> Tuesday)
> >> : and has always been well attended.
> >>
> >> Would Wed be a better night?  My thinking: if the Lucene track is
> >> Thu &
> >> Fri, then there might be some people who decide not to come to the
> >> con until Wed.
> >
> > I would also tend to Wed! But for me it is no problem, I will be the
> > whole
> > week in SF.
> >
> > Uwe
> >
>