Spatial search with Lucene
Posted by Mike Haller
on Saturday, October 16. 2010
at 21:52
in Java
At the Hadoop Hackathon this weekend at Sybit, we've worked on a getting tiled images into HDFS and HBase. A side-story was how to search for these tiles based on GPS coordinates. I took the task to see how you can perform queries based on spatial coordinates. That is, searching for locations which are within a specified radius from an origin:
