by David Smiley
Noon - 1:00, Room S050, CGIS South building.
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Abstract: Apache Lucene/Solr is a wildly popular search library and search server. But it does more than keyword search; it has impressive spatial/geospatial search capabilities too. After a brief overview of search technology, I’ll tell you about these spatial capabilities with examples, mostly in Solr. I’ll then cover some exciting advances that have occurred recently in Lucene and planned features, not yet exposed in Solr. Some of the more recent interesting capabilities are multi-dimensional indexes, surface-of-sphere/ellipsoid geometries, and heatmaps.
Speaker: David Smiley is a freelance consultant and software developer specializing on search technologies with Apache Lucene/Solr. David is a committer and PMC member with the Apache Lucene/Solr project and he co-wrote the first book on Solr – Apache Enterprise Search Server (PACKT), now in its third edition. Within the code-base, David is most known for developing much of the spatial code, and for establishing the Spatial4j library that some of Lucene uses. He’s native to Massachusetts, residing in Lowell. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
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