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From: "Uwe Schindler" <uwe@thetaphi.de>
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Cc: "'mitu2009'" <musicfreaque@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: Correctly indexing latitude and longitude values in Lucene
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:43:54 +0200
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I already responded to your eMail and answered all your questions!

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Uwe Schindler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitu2009 [mailto:musicfreaque@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:39 PM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Correctly indexing latitude and longitude values in Lucene
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am working on a  "US based nearest city search within a given radius"
> functionality using Lucene API.
> Am indexing city's lat and long values in Lucene as follows:
> 
>     doc.Add(new Field("latitude", paddedLatitude, Field.Store.YES,
> Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
> 
>     doc.Add(new Field("longitude", paddedLongitude, Field.Store.YES,
> Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
> 
> Since Lucene only understands strings and not numbers, am padding lat and
> long values.
> 
> For example, if original lat and long are 41.811846 and -87.820628
> respectively, after padding,values look like:
> 
> paddedLatitude -->"0041.811846" and paddedLongitude-->"-087.820628"
> 
> Am doing the same padding while building the nearest city query(using
> Lucene's ConstantScoreRangeQuery class).
> 
> Given the fact that lat and long values could be decimal/negative numbers,
> is this the right approach to index them so that I would get correct
> nearest
> cities in the search results when lucene would perform a number
> Range/comparison operation on these values?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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