Solr + maps

I think I can help.

For the map you need a view with a block diplay (please ask if you need more details about gmap maps).

On how to display the output of the solr search on the map:
- in the map view, add argument Node: NID
- configure this argument:
choose Provide default argument
Default argument type: PHP code
put this PHP code:

$response = apachesolr_static_response_cache();
$docs = $response->response->docs;
$nids = array();
if (!empty($docs)) {
foreach( $docs as $doc )
$nids[] = $doc->nid;
}
$nidList = implode( ",", $nids );
return $nidList;

Now the view will display the nodes that the apache solr search returns.

There is localsolr plugin (drupal.org/project/localsolr). It was a start. Solr 1.5 has spatial searching in it: http://drupal.org/node/685794

It is very doable, just going to require work.

Nope, stevepurkiss doesn't use solr for proximity searching, but would very much like to. I believe there's two issues with this for my situation in particular - one is the proximity searching itself, the other is the postcode issue, being in the UK as I am...

I use http://drupal.org/project/geo and the proximity search work great with views.
But now I have another project and need full text search with proximity search... So I try to integrate geo (I's easy and I don't like location) with solr. I post certainly a patch next week.

I'm new to this most excellent community and I'm hoping for some guidance. I'm trying to accomplish something along the lines of this topic, but perhaps slightly different (and not necessarily with solr).

My goal is to allow a user to filter their search by proximity, keyword, node type, and taxonomy term(s).

Has anyone accomplished this or have ideas for how to accomplish this?

So far, I followed directions (http://drupal.org/node/359463) to be able to create a view (with location module/u.s. zip codes copied to the database) that allows a user to enter a proximity for a zip code, keywords in the title field, node type and get successful results. Unfortunately when I try to filter for each of those things (proximity, node type, keywords in title) and add in taxonomy terms, the module crashes. It seems clear that attempting to filter by taxonomy terms is what's causing it to crash.

Here's the error message I get:

"user warning: Unknown column 'location.vid' in 'IN/ALL/ANY subquery' query: SELECT location.lid AS lid, 'Unknown' AS location_distance, node.title AS node_title, node.nid AS node_nid FROM location location LEFT JOIN location_instance location_instance ON location.lid = location_instance.lid LEFT JOIN node node ON location_instance.vid = node.vid WHERE (0) AND (location.vid IN ( SELECT tn.vid FROM term_node tn WHERE tn.tid = 0 )) AND (node.status <> 0) LIMIT 0, 10 in /home/website/public_html/modules/views/includes/view.inc on line 771."

Any thoughts on this or on how to remedy this problem (or achieve the goal of a search filtered by proximity, keyword, node type AND taxonomy term in another way) would be absolutely fantastic.

Thank you all for your amazing work!