Create a Geographic Point

Geographic search is available through the Point field type.

For an example of creating a geographic point and using it to perform a geographic search in Mashup UI, see the Restrict the search results to a Geographical Area in the Exalead CloudView Mashup Builder User's Guide.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Geographic Points
Search a Geographic Point
Calculate Distances in Virtual Fields
Use Geolocation Based on Place Detection

Create a Point Using the Data Model

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Index > Data model > Classes.
  2. Click Add property.
    • Give a name to the property.
    • For Data type, select either GPS point or XY point.
    • Click Accept.
  3. Optionally, select Use separate metas for each coordinate if latitude/ X and Longitude/ Y come from two different metas in your data source. Exalead CloudView concatenates the two coordinates to store them in a single index field.
  4. Click Apply.

The Data model configures the Index Schema and the Mapping automatically.

Create a Point Field Using the Index Schema

Before you begin: To enable the feature, you need to set the parameter indexExact to false in<DATADIR>/config/IndexSchemaList.xml
  1. In the Administration Console, go to Index > Data model > Advanced Schema.
  2. Click Add field.
    • Give a name to the field.
    • Select the Point type.
  3. For the Geographical coordinates type, select WGS84 (GPS) or Meter (XY).
  4. In Index > Data processing > Pipeline name > Mappings, add a new mapping and a new target.
  5. Under Indexing options, select Index exact form. You can clear all the other indexing options.
  6. Click Apply.