[Xapian-discuss] Geolocation
Richard Boulton
richard at lemurconsulting.com
Mon Oct 20 07:47:33 BST 2008
double wrote:
> Andreas Marienborg schrieb:
>> Hello :)
>>
>> Has anyone ever done geo-searching with xapian?
>>
> For geolocation you will want to use a HTM (Hierarchical Triangular
> Mesh) library:
> http://www.sdss.jhu.edu/htm/
There's some preliminary work on geolocation in the "geolocation" branch
in the xapian repository. It's not currently functional, but I'm likely
to be finishing it off in the coming weeks. I used the HTM approach for
partitioning the data, for efficiency (though there's rather more
involved than just plugging an HTM library in).
--
Richard
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