[LUCENE-5395] Upgrade Spatial4j to 0.4

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.7
• Component/s: modules/spatial
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 12/Jan/14 07:21
• Updated: 16/Mar/14 13:02
• Resolved: 24/Jan/14 20:28

Description

Spatial4j 0.4 should be released the week of January 13th; a snapshot is published. A longer version of the delta from 0.4 is in CHANGES.md

A couple notable new features are:

• Built-in WKT parser without relying on JTS. The older shape string format is deprecated.
• A binary shape codec for reading & writing the shapes to a byte-stream in a reasonably compact manner.

Issue Links

• blocks: LUCENE-3814 Manhattan distance function is incorrect, not absolute distance between coordinates
• blocks: SOLR-4879 Indexing a field of type solr.SpatialRecursivePrefixTreeFieldType fails when at least two vertexes are more than 180 degrees apart
• is required by: LUCENE-5408 SerializedDVStrategy -- match geometries in DocValues