Thanks for the pointers I'm going to store the long as E086.656530 or W086.656530
and the lat as N34.74212 or S34.74212 that should at least keep the lexographic search happy. I'm still reading the math pointer. thanks! Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Sven Duzont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: May 8, 2005 1:29 PM To: Andrew Boyd <java-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: Re: Latitude/Longitude and Lexigraphical search Hello Andrew, There already is a plugin available for Nutch : http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/GeoPosition I think that one can easily integrate it into a lucene app (i'll make some experimentations with it soon) ---- Sven Le dimanche 8 mai 2005 � 18:26:14, vous �criviez : AB> Hi All, AB> I'm wanting to do some range queries using latitude and longitude. AB> I have numbers like so: AB> long lat AB> -84.65532 32.74212 AB> What would be the best way to store this in lucene so I can do a range query? AB> Also for all you smart people out there do you know the AB> distance between the decimal places? AB> What I mean is if the long is constant what is the distance AB> (miles, kilometers, feet etc) between AB> 32.74213 - 32.74212 = .00001 = ?distance? AB> 32.74222 - 32.74212 = .00010 = ?distance? AB> Thanks, AB> Andrew AB> --------------------------------------------------------------------- AB> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AB> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
