locallucene plugin

[grantr]

Adding the ability to do geospatial indexing/searching using local lucene would be very useful, and a good candidate for a plugin.

[kimchy]

Agreed, spatial search is something that I am going to work on. I don't even think it will be a plugin, but a core feature (attachments would have been core as well if it wasn't so big in terms of size).

Regarding the implementation itself, it seems like the spatial package is going through a lot of changes, so it will be delicate to create something that will survive the changes.

[grantr]

This may be useful in designing an api for spatial search: http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html

[kimchy]

Interesting. I will certainly have a look at this once I tackle local lucene.

[kimchy]

Have been doing a lot of geo related work for the upcoming 0.9.1. Can you take a look and see if there is something missing? In any case, if there is, it would be great to raise it in the mailing list or another issue so we focus on specific features. What do you think, can this issue be closed?

[grantr]

The features we were looking for were:
radius (distance from point) search
bounding box search
polygon search
sort by distance from point

It looks like all of these have been implemented in 0.9.1 (I've been following commits closely). So I think this issue can safely be closed.

This is a really big deal for us! It finally allows us to drop sphinx for elasticsearch (sphinx supports geo distance sort), and we can add features that we couldn't with sphinx (thanks to polygon search)

[kimchy]

cool, I will close this issue. It would be a great help if you can take this features for a test drive.