[TCMUG] location aware search (using apache lucene/solr)

[Mark MacLennan]

lucene-geo-gazetteer
https://github.com/chrismattmann/lucene-geo-gazetteer

A command line gazetteer built around the Geonames.org dataset, that
uses the Apache Lucene library to create a searchable gazetter.

geonames

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mark MacLennan <maclenna at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone had seen the following and in particular had any
> experience using Lucene/Solr for this purpose:
>
> [Proposal] Apache SIS, A toolkit for constructing spatial information systems
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SpatialProposal
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201002.mbox/%3C4B6C8E2D.8010304@holsman.net%3E
>
> Of more immediate interest is that SIS derives from the existing
> geographic search capabilities of Apache Lucene
> (http://lucene.apache.org/) and Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/).
>
> LocalLucene
>   http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SpatialSearch
>   http://www.nsshutdown.com/projects/lucene/whitepaper/locallucene_v2.html
>   http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/12/31/spatial-lucene-2-0/
>
>
> This following article discusses finding geodata (OpenStreetMap) using
> search software such Solr (front-end to Lucene):
>
> "Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr"
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html
>
>
> Another application apparently already currently using Solr/Lucene for
> this purpose (with Geonames and OpenStreetMap) is:
> "Gisgraphy"
> http://www.gisgraphy.com/
>
> 'Gisgraphy is a free and open source framework. Its goal is to provide
> tools to use free GIS Data on the Web via REST webservices. Actually
> it manage Geonames and OpenStreetMap (34 million entries). it provides
> an importer to inject the data into a strongly typed Postgres /
> Postgis database and use them via webservices : worldwide geocoding,
> worldwide reverse geocoding, fulltext and find nearby. Results can be
> output in XML, Atom, RSS, JSON, PHP, Ruby, and Python.'
>
> - Mark