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Jayant Kumar
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Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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Radius faceting for location-based data


Location-based data can be represented in Solr using latitudes and longitudes. Applications can combine other data with location information to provide more insight into the data pertaining to a certain location. In analytics, location-based data is very important. Whether we are dealing with sales information, statistical information of any kind, or information pertaining to visits to a website, having a location in addition to the numbers that we already have provides an additional insight with a regional perspective.

We will delve into how geospatial searches happen in Solr in Chapter 6, Solr for Spatial Search. For the current chapter, let us understand the different types of location filters available with Solr.

For spatial filters, the following parameters are used in Solr:

  • d: Radial distance in kilometers

  • pt: Center point in the format of latitude and longitude

  • sfield: Refers to a spatial indexed field

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Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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