Check out www.browseengine.com, it is an open source meta engine on top of lucene. -John
On Feb 17, 2008 2:22 AM, Stephane Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > >
