Hi, I've been browsing the archive and the documentation about Lucene. It really seems that it could help implementing my use case but I would like to be sure first.
What I need is to be able to search data in a "catalog" which is geo-enabled. The data is stored in a database. A record has namely * name * keywords * footprint (that is a geometry that represents the record) * date range (optional) that defines the "validity of the data" * Timestamp * Creation date * various boolean flag * custom data I understand that Lucene is powerful for full-text based search but what about searching something like "give me all records that contains the kewords foo, with flag bar true, valid between 20070602 and 20070907 and whose geometry intersect a given box. I've seen on the list people using tricks by storing the coordinates in a way we could use range. In my case, the geometry is potentially very complex. The database handle that for me (Oracle Spatial or PostGIS for instance) with intersect, contains and such. Is it possible to combine a lucene search with a DB query? Any best practices on that topic? Thanks, Stéphane -- Large Systems Suck: This rule is 100% transitive. If you build one, you suck" -- S.Yegge --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
