Efficient, database-independent PHP implementation of geospatial index? Zend_Search_Lucene extension?

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I'm storing lat/lon information in a MySQL database, which doesn't have great geospatial search support. I'm already maintaining a separate Lucene text search index for efficient full text search, so I looked at the geospatial extension for Lucene; but it only seems to be available for the Java implementation, not the Zend_Search_Lucene PHP version I use.

Is there something similar that would allow me to maintain a separate, database-independent geospatial index? A good implementation of an R-Tree variant in PHP or something similar? A geospatial extension for Zend_Search_Lucene?

It'd need to allow efficient geospatial queries, mostly within-radius-of-x and within-bounding-box-y queries, and return the id of the entry in the database.

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm dealing with the same issue, trying to perform a geospatial search with Zend Lucene. — Matt Diamond, Apr 12 '11 at 21:58
@Matt Nope, still looking around and sticking with MySQL in the meantime. — deceze, Apr 12 '11 at 22:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '12 at 11:48

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http://www.ideacode.com/content/spatial-searches-with-zendsearchlucene helped me in this situation

answered Mar 11 '12 at 11:48

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