I am pleased to announce the latest release of our Spatial Solr Plugin, v1.0-RC4 . This release is a backwards compatible with RC3, and contains the following changes: PDF documentation has been improved to remove inconsistencies in request parameter and source code package names SpatialFilter now includes hashCode and equals implementations, facilitating storage of the filter in...
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In a number of blog entries we have spoken about the spatial search functionality that we have been developing here at Jteam. In the last two weeks, I have had a chance to contribute much of this work back to the Apache Lucene project with the goal of furthering the development of Lucene's open source spatial search support. If you want to dive immediately into the code, then jump to ...
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After the release of our Spatial Solr Plugin v2.0 it was reported by some users that there was an issue with the distance sorting functionality. We are glad to announce that we have addressed this issue and released SSP 2.0-RC2 . We recommend that all SSP 2.0 users and those considering using SSP 2.0, use this newer release. I'd like to thank all our users who shared their findings with...
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Having worked with a number of SSP users over the past few weeks, we are pleased to announce that SSP 2.0-RC4 has been released. This bug fix release addresses a number of problems identified by our users:   GeoDistanceComponent opening IndexReaders and not closing them Solr returning all fields of documents rather than just those requested Invalid bounding box range...
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The new release of Solr and Lucene 3.1, available here and here , is the first major release for Solr in almost two years and the first joint release of both projects. With each project having resolved several hundred issues leading to the release, lets take a look at the major improvements and new features including the much sought after spatial search, UIMA integration and improved...
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