Re: Lucene for Geo

2005-04-17 Thread Martin May
(assuming all other terms had boost factors of 0), that those docs which were closer would match more terms and thus be scored higher. Not positive but it's something to play with. Gabe --- Martin May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody, I have some questions concerning using Lucene

Re: Boosting not working?

2005-04-14 Thread Martin May
> > Look at this: http://lucenebook.com/search?query=explain (hit #1 is > from a free chapter) > > Otis > > > --- Martin May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a bunch of documents in my index, some of which have values > > for a >

Boosting not working?

2005-04-14 Thread Martin May
I have a bunch of documents in my index, some of which have values for a certain field while others don't. I'd like the ones that do have a value to always show up before the ones who don't when sorting by relevance. I tried to accomplish this by check whether there are values for the field, and

Lucene for Geo

2005-04-11 Thread Martin May
Hi everybody, I have some questions concerning using Lucene for Geo-searching. I have a bunch of documents (> 100,000) in the index that all have a latitude and longitude associated with them. I wanted to be able to search within a certain radius of a point of origin, which I accomplished by app