Query Location Extraction Using Solr

pjaol — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:23:47 -0400

Solr is an application based on lucene, available from Apache Solr , it provides a simple implementation
of the lucene search libraries.

Location extraction application

pjaol — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:10:12 -0400

The architecture used for this example, has a location extraction application, which takes
a users request, separates the query from the location, and forwards it on to your search engine.

Query and Location extraction

pjaol — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:46:43 -0400

Pretty much most search applications today have a standard interface.
A simple text box and a search button.

However when performing a geographical search, th

Location Data

pjaol — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:20:52 -0400

To begin you will need 2 sources of data, US zip code data, and population statistics.
You can often find this data for free, but you get what you pay for.

Several places to get zip data from

Chapter 3: Query and Location extraction

pjaol — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:52:10 -0400

An often asked question, how do you solve a single box input for a geographical search. Where you've got to separate out a users query from a location.

Compiling LocalSolr

pjaol — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:36:27 -0400

While the best endeavors are made to keep the LocalSolr demo up to date.
It often slips behind the latest version in our repository.

This article will show y

ChefMoz Index

pjaol — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:17:31 -0400

Right now if all has gone well you should have an indexed version of chefmoz in
LocalSolr.

To configure solr / local solr for th...

pjaol — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:08:18 -0400

To configure solr / local solr for the ChefMoz example you must change a few configurations
in the local solr example.

Begin with downloading the local solr

Using ChefMoz data

pjaol — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:52:55 -0400

Once you download the ChefMoz data, you will need to parse it, geocode the addresses, and convert
it to solr's xml format for indexing.

We will do this with

ChefMoz case study

pjaol — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:21:00 -0400

A question that is often asked, how and where do I get geographical data from.
Technology is generally the easy part, getting the data is tough.