The Land Laboratory participates with a communication in the Iberian Conference on Data Spatial Infrastructure

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
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