[Xapian-discuss] Geolocation

[Andreas Marienborg]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Olly Betts wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:23:49AM +0200, Andreas Marienborg wrote:
>> Add the following values to a document
>>     # - (lat + 90) * 1_000_000 (to aleviate float problems)
>>     # - (lon + 180) * 1_000_000 (to aleviate float problems)
>
> Incidentally, there's no need to work in integers here - just use
> Xapian::sortable_serialise() which compactly encodes floating point
> numbers as strings which sort in the same order as the floating point
> numbers do.  It's designed for such purposes.

is that wrapped in the perl-modules?

- andreas