Question

I’m currently using django haystack with xapian. I couldn’t find any documentation on how to perform geospatial queries on xapian. But there seems to be some momentum on Solr. So i’m currently experimenting with that.

I couldn’t get spatialSolr to work properly on local, but for now working with spatial-solr-light, which seems to work fine. It accepts queries like

http://127.0.0.1:8080/solr/select/?q=blahblah&spatial={!radius=1.0%20sort=true}lat:10.0,lng:-10.0

Can anyony point me to a patch for haystack that allows me to pass custom queries like that. I could use raw_search(), but i can’t chain the resuts. In any case i would like to find a cleaner way to do something like
sqs.spatial(….)

There are some patches from other people mentioned on the google group(links below), but most of them are unreachable.

References:

• https://github.com/fizx/solr-spatial-light

• http://groups.google.com/group/django-haystack/browse_thread/thread/d0e23d45c0baa300/2298b6cf43389e18?lnk=gst&q=Spatial#2298b6cf43389e18

• http://groups.google.com/group/django-haystack/browse_thread/thread/f88d625679941d77/420892adac151a64

• http://groups.google.com/group/django-haystack/browse_thread/thread/e3a70112ce944b00/33bd673fbaaed0a7?lnk=gst&q=jteam#33bd673fbaaed0a7

Answer 1

Here’s a fork of django haystack that adds in support for :

https://github.com/sidmitra/django-haystack-spatialsolrplugin

And corresponding notes are here:
https://github.com/sidmitra/django-haystack-spatialsolrplugin/wiki/_pages