Geospatial search with SOLR
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This document discusses geospatial search capabilities with Apache Solr. It defines geospatial search and geolocation, describes how to configure Drupal to support geospatial search with Solr through modules like search_api and location, and provides an example of custom coding needed to properly index and facet location fields for geospatial queries. Future improvements discussed include adding radius box search by city and visualizing search results on a map.
![Doing the geospatial search
Adding a part to the querystring when
searching:
&spatial=[lat]_[long]_[radius]
hook_apachesolr_query_alter($query)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/geospatialsearchwithsolr-120530031024-phpapp02/85/Geospatial-search-with-SOLR-40-320.jpg)
![hook_apachesolr_query_alter
$query->addParam('fq', "{!geofilt
sfield=locs_coordinates" . " pt=" . $keys[0] . ',' .
$keys[1] . " d=" . $distance . "}");
{!geofilt sfield=locs_coordinates pt=50.879816,
4.706429 d=10}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/geospatialsearchwithsolr-120530031024-phpapp02/85/Geospatial-search-with-SOLR-41-320.jpg)
Geospatial search with SOLR
- 1. Geospatial search with SOLR Nicolas Leroy
- 3. Geospatial search with SOLR
- 4. Who am I? Nicolas Leroy - AUSY/Dataflow Twitter: nicolasleroy Drupal.org: http://drupal.org/user/3527
- 5. SOLR
- 6. SOLR Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document handling, and geospatial search. Solr is written in Java
- 8. SOLR Single core vs Multicore One index vs Multiple indexes
- 9. Multicore
- 10. Multicore Startup script: cd /Applications/apache-solr-3.5.0/server java -Dsolr.solr.home=multicore -jar start.jar
- 12. Geospatial search: definition wikipedia: Geomatics (also known as geospatial technology or geomatics engineering) is the discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information, or spatially referenced information.
- 14. Latitude and longitude Latitude = horizontal lines Longitude = vertical lines
- 15. World map
- 16. Geolocation
- 17. Geolocation: ground mark Surveyor-General Victoria (SGV) is responsible for Victoria’s Geodetic Survey Control Network. This is the infrastructure used to provide accurate position and height referencing across Victoria. It is made up of 140,000 ground marks http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/property-titles-and- maps/surveying-home-page/government- survey-services/victorias-survey-infrastructure
- 18. Drupal + SOLR
- 19. Drupal + SOLR: modules • search_api + search_api_solr • apachesolr
- 20. Geospatial Options • geofield + geocoder + search_api + search_api_location • location + search_api + search_api_location • location + gmap + apachesolr + apachesolr_location • apachesolr_geo still a sandbox, not much information.
- 21. Drupal + SOLR Drupal: http://drupal.org/start Apachesolr module http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr Download SOLR: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/ solr/3.6.0
- 22. Drupal + SOLR Nice tutorial: http://www.nickveenhof.be/blog/simple-guide- install-apache-solr-3x-drupal-7 Check his blog for screencasts: http://www.nickveenhof.be/
- 24. Our Story • Drupal site • Using SOLR with apachesolr module • Location module Problem: Location information wasn't indexed
- 25. Drupal: Location module The Location module allows real-world geographic locations to be associated with Drupal nodes. http://drupal.org/project/location
- 27. Why not indexed? SOLR doesn't know what to do with this custom field. And this field contains multiple values (street, city, province, country,...)
- 28. Solution We wrote some custom code to: • index location information properly • generate facets • provide a search form for geospatial search (longitude, latitude + radius) We changed schema.xml to use a "solr.LatLonType" field.
- 29. Schema?
- 30. Schema.xml? The schema.xml file contains all of the details about which fields your documents can contain, and how those fields should be dealt with when adding documents to the index, or when querying those fields. Schema.xml comes with the apachesolr module and is configured to handle drupal content.
- 31. Schema.xml? <!-- A specialized field for geospatial search. If indexed, this fieldType must not be multivalued. --> <fieldType name="location" class="solr.LatLonType" subFieldSuffix="_coordinate"/>
- 32. Schema.xml This field is now included in schema.xml that comes with apachesolr module.
- 33. Code
- 34. Index location information hook_apachesolr_update_index(&$document, $node) = DEPRECATED Now use: hook_index_document_build_ENTITYTYPE
- 37. Map fields
- 39. Create facets
- 40. Doing the geospatial search Adding a part to the querystring when searching: &spatial=[lat]_[long]_[radius] hook_apachesolr_query_alter($query)
- 41. hook_apachesolr_query_alter $query->addParam('fq', "{!geofilt sfield=locs_coordinates" . " pt=" . $keys[0] . ',' . $keys[1] . " d=" . $distance . "}"); {!geofilt sfield=locs_coordinates pt=50.879816, 4.706429 d=10}
- 42. Too hacky (via url) Should be done with querytypes.
- 44. Future?
- 45. Future • Adding city + radius box • Getting coordinates of the city • Search for items within that range • Adding visualisation • Settings UI: miles or km,… What would you add? Let us know! http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr_location