Representation of spatial data as latitude and longitude in Solr

Filtering by geofilt and bound box filters

Use of the geodist function to calculate distance

Distance-based faceting and boosting of results

Support for new shapes: Polygon, LineString, and other new shapes are supported as indexed and query shapes in Solr 4. Shapes other than points, rectangles, and circles are supported via the Java Topology Suite (JTS), an optional dependency that we will discuss later.

Indexing multi-valued fields: This is critical for storing the results of automatic place extraction from text using natural language processing techniques, since a variable number of locations will be found for a...