Submitted by laborate on Wed, 21/11/2012 - 11:44 GMT.
The Land Laboratory (LaboraTe) has participated in Iberian Conference on Data Spatial Infrastructures
(JIIDE) with the communication entitled "Gazetteer service
using the Solr search engine. Scenario in the province Lugo."
The conference was held in Madrid (Spain) from October 17th
to 19th. JIIDE conferences have been held since
2005 and its aim is to promote "the understanding and dissemination
of spatial data infrastructures and interoperability benefits
of GIS can bring to society."
In the submitted communication the gazetteer service of
the province of Lugo was introduced. The main novelty is
technical and involves using the Solr search engine
to find geo-referenced geographic phenomena, instead of
opting for the traditional solution, which is based on relational
databases. The advantages of this technology are that search
operations are executed faster and the results are of higher
quality.
related links and downloads:
- presentation "Servicio de nomenclátor con Solr. Caso práctico provincia de Lugo." (in Spanish) [PDF, ~550 kB]
- blog IDEE, "Gazetteer service in the province of Lugo using the Solr search engine." (in Spanish): http://goo.gl/BX4nz
- JIIDE 2012 presentations and communications: http://goo.gl/FZoFR